SPEAKERS

Dean Kamen

Dean Kamen is an inventor, an entrepreneur and a tireless advocate for science and technology. His roles as inventor and advocate are intertwined—his own passion for technology and its practical uses has driven his personal determination to spread the word about technology’s virtues and by so doing to change the culture of the United States.

As an inventor, he holds more than 440 U.S. and foreign patents, many of them for innovative medical devices that have expanded the frontiers of health care worldwide. While still a college undergraduate, he invented the first wearable infusion pump, which rapidly gained acceptance from such diverse medical specialties as chemotherapy, neonatology and endocrinology. In 1976 he founded his first medical device company, AutoSyringe, Inc., to manufacture and market the pumps. At age 30, he sold that company to Baxter International Corporation. By then, he had added a number of other infusion devices, including the first insulin pump for diabetics. Following the sale of AutoSyringe, Inc., he founded DEKA Research & Development Corporation to develop internally generated inventions as well as to provide R&D for major corporate clients.

In the year 2000, Dean was awarded the National Medal of Technology. Presented by President Clinton, this award was in recognition for inventions that have advanced medical care worldwide, and for innovative and imaginative leadership in awakening America to the excitement of science and technology. He was also awarded the Lemelson-MIT Prize in 2002, and was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in May 2005.

In addition to DEKA, one of Dean’s proudest accomplishments is founding FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), an organization dedicated to motivating the next generation to understand, use and enjoy science and technology.

Tom Kalil

Thomas Kalil is currently serving as the Deputy Director for Policy for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and Senior Advisor for Science, Technology and Innovation for the National Economic Council.

Kalil is on leave from UC Berkeley, where he was Special Assistant to the Chancellor for Science and Technology at UC Berkeley. He was responsible for developing major new multi-disciplinary research and education initiatives at the intersection of information technology, nanotechnology, microsystems, and biology. He also conceived and launched a program called “Big Ideas @ Berkeley,” which provides support for multidisciplinary teams of Berkeley students that are interested in addressing economic and societal challenges such as clean energy, safe drinking water, and poverty alleviation.

In 2007 and 2008, Kalil was the Chair of the Global Health Working Group for the Clinton Global Initiative, where he developed new public and private sector initiatives in areas such as maternal and child health, under-nutrition, and vaccines.  Tom was also a Senior Fellow with the Center for American Progress, where he co-authored A National Innovation Agenda, one of the four pillars of CAP’s Economic Plan for Plan for the Next Administration.  He was also a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Nanomix, and has served on three committees of the National Academy of Sciences, including the Committee to Facilitate Interdisciplinary Research.

Previously, Thomas Kalil served as the Deputy Assistant to President Clinton for Technology and Economic Policy, and the Deputy Director of the White House National Economic Council. He was the NEC’s “point person” on a wide range of technology and telecommunications issues, such as the liberalization of Cold War export controls, the allocation of spectrum for new wireless services, and investments in upgrading America’s high-tech workforce. He led a number of White House technology initiatives, such as the National Nanotechnology Initiative, the Next Generation Internet, bridging the digital divide, e-learning, increasing funding for long-term information technology research, making IT more accessible to people with disabilities, and addressing the growing imbalance between support for biomedical research and for the physical sciences and engineering. He was also appointed by President Clinton to serve on the G-8 Digital Opportunity Task Force (dot force).

Prior to joining the White House, Tom was a trade specialist at the Washington offices of Dewey Ballantine, where he represented the Semiconductor Industry Association on U.S.-Japan trade issues and technology policy. He also served as the principal staffer to Gordon Moore in his capacity as Chair of the SIA Technology Committee.

Tom received a B.A. in political science and international economics from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and completed graduate work at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He is the author of articles and op-eds on S&T policy, the use of prizes as a tool for stimulating innovation, nanotechnology, nuclear strategy, newborn health, vaccines, the impact of mobile communications in developing countries, U.S.-Japan trade negotiations, U.S.-Japan cooperation in science and technology, the National Information Infrastructure, distributed learning, and electronic commerce.

Terry Taber

During his 28 years at Eastman Kodak, Terry Taber has been involved in new materials research, product development and commercialization, manufacturing, and business management. 

Initially at Kodak, Terry conducted synthetic research on new materials for photographic film applications and holds several patents in this area. After leaving the lab, he was program manager for several Kodak products, including the films and cartridge for the Advanced PhotoSystem launched in 1996.  Terry became the worldwide consumer film business product manager from 1999 – 2002.  He returned to R&D as an Associate Director from 2002 – 2005, followed by the Director of Materials & Media R&D from 2005 – 2007.  Since early 2007, he has been the Chief Operating Officer for Image Sensor Solutions.  His range of projects and leadership roles has always involved understanding and combining technologies, products, manufacturing, and customers into a robust business.

Terry received his B.S. degree in Chemistry from Purdue University in 1976 and his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from CalTech in 1980.  In addition, he received an M.S. in General Management from MIT in 1997, as a Kodak Sloan Fellow.

In 2003, Terry was elected to the Board of Trustees at Roberts Wesleyan College and Northeastern Seminary. 

Terry is married (wife, Sherri) with two adult children.  He is active in community and church groups and enjoys golf, bicycle riding, and hiking.

Dr. Hans Stork

Dr. Hans Stork was named chief technology officer and group vice president for the Silicon Systems Group at Applied Materials in October 2007, where he is responsible for leading the company’s roadmap for silicon technology equipment.  In this role, Dr. Stork oversees integrated technology development across the silicon products, coordinates the organization’s industry and university engagements and ensures value to customers by leveraging understanding of technology interactions to optimize differentiated product solutions.

Prior to joining Applied Materials, Dr. Stork served as CTO and senior vice president of Silicon Technology Development for Texas Instruments from 2001 to 2007. He served as lab director for ULSI and Storage & Systems Labs for Hewlett Packard from 1994 to 2001, and was senior manager for Exploratory Si Technology at IBM from 1982 to 1994, where he received two outstanding achievement awards.

Dr. Stork is an IEEE Fellow and member of the board of directors for Semiconductor Research Corporation and the Semiconductor Industry Association technology strategy committee. He previously served as a member of the advisory committee for the Texas State Emerging Technology Fund from 2005 to 2006 and was a member of the board of directors for Sematech from 2002 to 2007.

Dr. Stork earned both a bachelor of science and Diplom-Ingenieur degree in electrical engineering from Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.  He earned his doctorate in electrical engineering from Stanford University.

Josh Wolfe

Josh is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Lux Capital, focusing on investments in nanotechnology, semiconductors and life sciences. Josh manages Lux Capital’s investments in Nanosys and Cambrios, and serves on the Board of Directors of Crystal IS and Lux Research. Before forming Lux Capital, he worked in Salomon Smith Barney’s Investment Banking group, where his experience included a $4 billion hotel merger and a defense against an unsolicited LBO. Josh has also worked in capital markets while at Merrill Lynch on its Financial Futures & Options/Government Strategy desk and at Prudential Securities in its Municipal Finance department.
Prior to venturing into the financial world, Josh conducted and published cutting-edge AIDS/immunopathology research in Cell Vision and The Journal of Leukocyte Biology, leading medical/immunology journals. Josh graduated with distinction from Cornell University with a B.S. in Economics and Finance. He has been an invited guest speaker, lecturer, and panelist on nanotechnology for CNBC, CNN, Harvard, Yale, Wharton, Columbia, Cornell, Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse First Boston, Capitol Hill, government labs, and officials in France, Canada, UK, Spain, Singapore, and Germany. Widely recognized as one of the preeminent minds in nanotechnology and finance, Josh has been invited by the White House and Canadian Government to advise government organizations on funding strategies.
Josh is a co-founder of The NanoBusiness Alliance, a columnist with Forbes Magazine and Editor of the monthly Forbes/Wolfe Emerging Tech Report.

Warren Ribley

On March 2, 2009, Governor Pat Quinn named Warren Ribley as Director of the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity.
Prior to this announcement, Ribley served as DCEO’s Director of Operations since March 2003 where he oversaw the Department’s 12 administrative offices and 12 program bureaus. In this role, he helped the state of Illinois add more new jobs than any Midwestern state since 2004; facilitated the development of more than 585 new business projects in Illinois and was a key player in the campaign to bring FutureGen, the “clean-coal plant of tomorrow” to Mattoon.
Ribley began working in state government in 1979, serving for twelve years in the Office of the Illinois Senate President. He joined the Office of the State Treasurer in 1991 and became the Director of Banking in 1993 under now-Governor Quinn, managing relationships between the State of Illinois and over 500 financial institutions.
He has 21 years of professional experience in state government and eight years in the private sector, focusing on financial services. Throughout his career Ribley, has worked closely with the Illinois General Assembly to develop successful programs to strengthen the Illinois economy.
The Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity’s mission is to bolster and improve Illinois’ competitiveness in the changing global economy.  Among the Department’s top priorities: creating and retaining high quality jobs, maintaining a well-trained workforce and building strong communities.
Originally from Olney, he has lived in Springfield with this family for nearly 30 years.

Congressman Daniel Lipinski

Congressman Dan Lipinski is a proud native and Representative of Illinois’ Third Congressional District.  The district includes large parts of south and southwest Chicago, as well as several suburban communities in west and southwest Cook County.  All of these neighborhoods and the families who call them home make the Third District one of the most diverse and vibrant areas in the entire country.

As a skilled legislator, Congressman Lipinski has fought tirelessly for the residents of the district, as well as all Americans-leading the way in improving our nation’s schools, making the healthcare system more accessible and transparent, strengthening Social Security and Medicare, protecting the American worker, improving our nation’s transportation and infrastructure, and ensuring our families’ safety and security.

To advance the interests of the Third District, Congressman Lipinski is a member of three House Committees: Transportation and Infrastructure, Science and Technology, and Small Business.  As a member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Congressman Lipinski serves on the Subcommittee on Aviation, the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, and the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.  In the Committee on Science and Technology, Congressman Lipinski is Vice-Chairman of the full Committee and also a member of the Subcommittee on Research and Science Education and the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.  As a member of the House Committee Small Business, Congressman Lipinski belongs to the Subcommittee on Regulations, Healthcare and Trade.

Prior to his election to the House of Representatives, Congressman Lipinski taught Political Science at the University of Tennessee and at the University of Notre Dame.  He served on the staffs of former Minority Leader Richard Gephardt, Congressman Lane Evans, Congressman Jerry Costello, former Congressman George Sangmiester, and former Congressman Rod Blagojevich.  He also served on the staffs of the House Administration Committee and the House Democratic Policy Committee and worked for the U.S. Department of Labor and the Illinois General Assembly’s Commission on Intergovernmental Cooperation.

Congressman Dan Lipinski earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Northwestern University, a Master’s Degree in Engineering-Economic Systems from Stanford University, and a PhD in Political Science from Duke University. 

Michael Holman

Michael Holman is a Research Director at Lux Research. He leads a team of Analysts and Senior Analysts responsible for providing ongoing intelligence and strategic advice to clients in a variety of emerging technology areas, including nanomaterials, solar energy, alternative power and energy storage, water technologies, and biosciences. He and his research team provide the information and insight to help clients—ranging from Global 500 corporations to leading institutional investors—make better decisions about emerging technologies. Michael is also deeply involved in technology public policy issues. He is a member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) Nanotechnology Technical Advisory Group, and was invited to address policymakers from the U.S. and EU at the Perspectives on the Future of Science and Technology program. He has helped the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) organize its Nanomanufacturing for Energy Efficiency Workshop, and helped draft a roadmap document for the DOE, guiding hundreds of millions of dollars in spending.
Michael holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Columbia University, where he performed cutting-edge research as a part of Columbia’s Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center and authored numerous scientific articles and reviews. He also holds a B.A. in Chemistry and Philosophy from Rice University.

Scott Livingston

Scott Livingston is the Chief Executive Officer of the Livingston Group of Companies LLC and of Livingston Securities LLC, a full service investment bank/advisory and broker/dealer with a reputation as one of the leading experts on Wall Street and across America in the emerging field of nanotechnology. Nanotechnology has the potential to have a significant impact on a broad range of industries, including health/life science, energy/power, cleantech/greentech, industrial/defense, infrastructure/construction, electronics/semiconductors, consumer/leisure, and others. Mr. Livingston has been called “sharp and highly connected” by the Forbes Wolfe Nanotechnology Report (July 1, 2005) and has been a keynote speaker on advanced technology investment trends at MIT, the Harvard Club, the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL), the Nanobusiness Alliance, the Cleveland Clinic, Brookhaven National Labs, the International Business Forum, Albany Nanotech, the Delaware Technology Park, Hillary Clinton’s Jobs for New York, WXXA Fox 23, Cold Spring Harbor’s Dolan DNA Learning Center and at conferences for economic development and job creation through investment in advanced technologies in over a dozen states across America.

Leonard Poveromo

Leonard Poveromo is currently the Director of Technology Development for Northrop Grumman’s Integrated Systems Eastern Region.  Mr. Poveromo has held leadership positions in the Advanced Composite community throughout his 38-year career.  His technical contributions and involvement with professional societies have been significant to the Advanced Composites industry whose evolution his career has paralleled.  He currently is a fellow of SAMPE, a member of the Editorial Review Board of the SAMPE Quarterly Magazine, He is a member of the Advanced Energy Research and Technology Center Executive Board Member – SUNY Stony Brook, Air Force Office of Scientific Research Review Panel, Chemical and Molecular Engineering External Advisory Board – Polytechnic University, SUNY Stony Brook, Center of Excellence in Wireless and Information Technology (CEWIT) – SUNY Stony Brook – Executive Board, Industrial Advisory Board and South Carolina Research Authority’s Technical Advisory Board and Executive Steering Committee.  He has authored over 30 technical papers, holds several patents, was awarded SPI’s “Centerpoise Award”, and was past Program and General Chairman of SAMPE’s National Technical Conference and the Carbon Fiber Conferences.   

Mr. Poveromo has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Lehigh University and an MBA from Hofstra University. 

Bradley Pietras

Brad began his career at GE Astro Space in East Windsor, New Jersey. He left GE in 1990 to become a graduate fellow in Computational Neuroscience and PhD candidate in Neuroscience at the Institute for Sensory Research at Syracuse University. He returned to GE, now Lockheed Martin in 1996, joining the Advanced Programs group. After several years of managing missile defense research and development projects, he took the position as MS2 Radar Systems’ Missile Defense Business Development Manager in 2002. Brad held increasing levels of responsibility in domestic and international business development including strategic planning and congressional relations. In 2006, Brad became Director of Advanced Technology for MS2, responsible for research and development programs across the eight lines of business. Brad took his current position in Corporate Engineering and Technology in 2007 where he is the Director of the Lockheed Martin Corporate Nanotechnology Strategic Technology Thread.

Brad holds a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Physics from the Rochester Institute of Technology and a Master’s of Science degree in Neuroscience from the College of Engineering at Syracuse University.

Dr. Waguih Ishak

Waguih Ishak received a B.Sc. degree (with Honors) in electrical engineering from Cairo University in 1971 and a B.Sc. degree in mathematics (with Honors) from Ain Shams University, Egypt, in 1973.  His M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering (Magnetic Bubble Memories) were awarded by McMaster University, Ontario, Canada, in 1975 and 1978, respectively.  In 1999, Waguih completed the Stanford Executive Program at Stanford University.

He joined Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in 1978 where he designed magnetic bubble propagation and detection circuits and surface acoustic wave (SAW) low-loss filters.  In 1981, he became a project leader and in 1983 he was the project manager of the Sources and Signal Processing Group.  He was responsible for transferring SAW and nonlinear gallium arsenide technologies to HP’s Spectrum Analyzer and Oscilloscope divisions, resulting in many HP products such HP 8562 Microwave Spectrum Analyzer, HP 54121, HP54123 & HP54124 High-Speed Digitizing Scopes. 

In 1987, Waguih became the manager of the Photonics Technology Department of the Instruments & Photonics Laboratory which is responsible for R&D programs in fiber optics, integrated optics, optoelectronics, micro-optics, and optical interconnects for applications in measurements, communications (datacom and telecom), and computer interconnects. The department was responsible for generating a new business for HP in lightwave test and measurement such as lightwave component and spectrum analyzers, tunable laser sources, frequency and time-domain reflectometers, and polarization analyzers. The department was also responsible for starting new R&D programs in the areas of vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSEL), high-speed parallel optical interconnects (POLO), optical measurements for process monitoring and control, and electronic digital films for photography and memory applications.

In 1995, Waguih was promoted to Director of the Communications & Optics Research Laboratory (CORL). Waguih led his R&D team in the areas of photonics (fiber optics, integrated optics, optoelectronics, and micro-optics) and integrated electronics. The emphasis was on fiber-optic communications, wireless communications and the use of optics and electronics in novel applications in communications, computations and measurements. Many products came out from the research work such as the optical mouse, the photonic switch and the parallel optical interconnects modules.

In 2003, Waguih became the Director of the Photonics & Electronics Research Lab (PERL) at Agilent Labs (Agilent was spun off by HP in 1999), responsible for the R&D programs in photonics, high-speed electronics, sensors, semiconductor test, wireless communications and consumer electronics. Many Agilent products were based on technologies developed in PERL including the laser mouse and the 40 Gb/s parallel optical interconnect transceivers.

In 2005, Waguih became the Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Avago Technologies. Waguih manages the company’s U.S. Advanced R&D Center and is responsible for creating technologies for its Electronic Components Business Unit (ECBU).

In 2007, Waguih joined Corning Incorporated as the VP and Director of the newly-formed West Coast Research in Santa Clara, California.

Waguih has authored about 80 journal and conference papers, and four chapters in the “Handbook of Electronic Instruments.”  He is a Fellow of the IEEE and was named an inventor on seven US patents.

Mark Shannon

Mark A. Shannon is the Director of the NSF STC WaterCAMPWS, which is a multiple university and government laboratory center for advancing the science and engineering of materials and systems for revolutionary improvements in water purification for human use. He is also the Director of the Micro-Nano-Mechanical Systems (MNMS) Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a 2000 sq. ft class 10 and 100 cleanroom laboratory devoted to research and education in the design and fabrication of micro- and nanoelectromechanical systems (MEMS & NEMS), microscale fuel cells and gas sensors, high-temperature microchemical reactors, micro-nanofluidic sensors for biological fluids. He chaired the Instrument Systems Development Study Session for the National Institutes of Health. He is the James W. Bayne Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and received his B.S. (1989) M.S. (1991) and Ph.D. (1993) degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. He received the NSF Career Award in 1997 to advance microfabrication technologies, the Xerox Award for Excellence in Research (2004), the Kritzer Scholar (2003-2006), the Willet Faculty Scholar (2004-2007), and received the BP Innovation in Education Award in 2006.

Sean Murdock

Prior to becoming the Executive Director of the NanoBusiness Alliance, he was the Executive Director and a founding board member of AtomWorks, an initiative formed to foster nanotechnology in Illinois and more broadly throughout the Midwest.
Sean has established himself as a leading thinker in the areas of nanotechnology commercialization and economic development. He has delivered keynote speeches on the commercialization of nanotechnology at several nanotechnology conferences, and served as co-chair for the commercialization focused NanoCommerce 2003 conference and trade show. Sean has been quoted extensively on the subject in many leading publications including Fortune, The Economist, the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, and Small Times.
Sean has been very active in nanotechnology trade and economic development issues. He helped to organize and execute the first Nanotechnology Trade Mission to Europe in conjunction with the NanoBusiness Alliance and the U.S. Department of Commerce. He has also been engaged with senior officials of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Technology Administration on the potential impact of export control issues on nanotechnology development and commercialization.
Prior to founding AtomWorks and serving as the Executive Director of the NanoBusiness Alliance, Sean had more than 7 years experience in management consulting, most recently as Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company. Sean served a variety of Fortune 500 companies, focusing primarily upon the industrial and chemicals sectors. While there, he developed some of the firm’s early perspective on the business opportunities created by the nanotech revolution, publishing the first two internal documents on the subject.
Sean received his Masters in Business Administration and Masters in Engineering Management from Northwestern University. He holds a BA in Economics from the University of Notre Dame.

Fabien Cousteau

Always seeking the thrill of discovery, even as a child, he was part of the crew of his grandfather’s storied ships, Calypso and Alcyone at the age of 12. Over the next 11 years he has been collecting priceless experiences during expeditions to exotic places. The combination of his fieldwork and a degree in environmental economics from Boston University has developed his strong belief that discipline can be the basis for innovative solutions that reconcile regional and global environmental problems with western market economies. A perfect example of such a resolution, he maintains, is the world wide growth of eco-tourism. “Take, for example, the Great White sharks in South Africa,” he said. “These beautiful fish are protected and well respected in that part of the world mainly because an economic solution has permitted locals to make a living by preserving rather than killing. The future well-being of our planet rests in our convincing people that the environment is worth saving.”
It is with this thought that he set out to show what could be done in the business world. He joined Seventh Generation, a leading environmental products development company, where he successfully spearheaded new product development and new business projects. Having proven his skills in business, he decided to return to his deep-rooted family passion for exploration. He has joined his father, Jean-Michel, and Deep Ocean Odyssey, as the third generation to carry on the tradition of adventure and exploration in the deep ocean, pioneered by his grandfather more than half a century ago.
Recently he co-launched Natural Entertainment, which is working on numerous projects related to exploration and environmental awareness thru television and other media.
Currently Fabien has partnered up with his father, Jean Michel Cousteau, and sister Celine to complete a three year multi hour series called Ocean Adventures for PBS starting in 2006 (http://www.pbs.org/kqed/oceanadventures). Topics range from the Grey whale migration of the west coast of the Americas to the magical coral spawning of the Caribbean to diving with squadrons of goliath groupers to the ghost ships of the Great Lakes. Additional hours cover exotic places such as the Amazon, Samoa, Christmas Island, Papua New Guinea, the Arctic and so on.
An active writer, he is currently working on a children’s book series and has chronicled his experiences for an upcoming book. During his “down-time” Fabien is working on designing and building and Oceans Educational Institute as part of several educational institutions around the United States.
Fabien shares his time between France and the United States and when not conducting fieldwork he is riding the planet on a wind surfer, mountain bike or piloting a plane. He recently co-hosted the Today Show’s annual look at the environment.

John Rogers

Professor John A. Rogers obtained BA and BS degrees in chemistry and in physics from the University of Texas, Austin, in 1989.  From MIT, he received SM degrees in physics and in chemistry in 1992 and the PhD degree in physical chemistry in 1995.  From 1995 to 1997, Rogers was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard University Society of Fellows.  He joined Bell Laboratories as a Member of Technical Staff in the Condensed Matter Physics Research Department in 1997, and served as Director of this department from 2000-2002.  He currently holds the Lee J. Flory-Founder Chair in Engineering at University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign with a primary appointment in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, with joint appointments in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mechanical Science and Engineering and Chemistry.
        Rogers’ research includes fundamental and applied aspects of nano and molecular scale fabrication as well as materials and patterning techniques for unusual format electronic and photonic systems.  He has published ~250 papers, and is co-inventor on >70 patents and patent applications, more than 40 of which are licensed or in active use by large companies and startups.  He has co-founded companies in semiconductor metrology (Active Impulse Systems), photovoltaics (Semprius), biomedical devices (MC10) and solid state lighting (CoolEdge), the first of which was acquired by a large company in 1998; the rest are active, independent firms.  His work at Bell Labs resulted in a commercial product, the RightWave Tunable Dispersion Compensator, that is still used in high speed lightwave communication systems.  His research has been recognized with many awards including, most recently, the IEEE George Smith Award for the best paper in IEEE Electron Device Letters (2009), the National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship from the Department of Defense (2008), the Daniel Drucker Eminent Faculty Award from the University of Illinois (2007) and the Leo Hendrick Baekeland Award from the American Chemical Society (2007).  He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (2006), the Materials Research Society (2007) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2008).

Jack Uldrich

Jack Uldrich is the author of seven books, including the award-winning, bestseller, The Next Big Thing is Really Small: How Nanotechnology Will Change the Future of Your Business; Investing in Nanotechnology: Think Small. Win Big and, most recently in 2008, Jump the Curve: 50 Strategies to Help You Company Stay Ahead of Emerging Technology and Green Investing: How to Make Money Through Environment-Friendly stocks.
          He is the president of The NanoVeritas Group—an international leadership and technology consultancy dedicated to helping business, government, and non-profit organizations prepare for and profit from emerging technologies. Clients include Fortune 100 companies, venture capital firms and state and regional governments. Uldrich is also a regular contributor on emerging technologies and other emerging technologies for The Motley Fool, and his written works have also appeared in The Wall Street Reporter, Leader to Leader, The Futurist, BusinessWeek, The Scientist, CityBusiness, The Futures Research Quarterly, TechStation Central and scores of other newspapers around the country. 
Jack is a frequent speaker on the technology and leadership lecture circuits, and has addressed numerous businesses, trade associations and investment groups, including General Mills, Pfizer, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. He is also a regular guest on CNBC, MSNBC and CNN.
Uldrich, a former naval intelligence officer and Defense Department official, also served as the Director of the Minnesota Office of Strategic and Long Range Planning under Governor Jesse Ventura.

Vincent Caprio

Mr. Caprio is the founder and Executive Director New York NanoBusiness Alliance.
Mr. Caprio is also Vice President of the national NanoBusiness Alliance and sits on the Alliance’s Board of Directors, as well as the Board of Directors of the Emerging Industries Alliance of New York State. Mr. Caprio is one of the foremost advocates for government funding of nanotechnology at both the state and Federal levels. Mr. Caprio has testified before the state legislatures of New York and Connecticut, and has organized the NanoBusiness Alliance’s public policy tour of Washington, D.C. for the past three years. Mr. Caprio is also a frequent speaker at domestic and international nanotechnology conferences, most recently addressing the Minatec Crossroads Conference in Grenoble, France and Quantum Dots 2006 in San Francisco, CA. Mr. Caprio has served as a consultant to leading nanotechnology research and advisory firm Lux Research, for its Lux Executive Summit in 2005 & 2006.

Mr. Caprio is a 20-year tradeshow and conference industry veteran with an impressive track record of launching events focusing on emerging technology markets. Mr. Caprio joined the NanoBusiness Alliance as event director in 2002, to steer the launch of the highly successful NanoBusiness event

Sally Gutierrez

Sally C. Gutierrez is the Director of the National Risk Management Research Laboratory (NRMRL) in Cincinnati, Ohio.  NRMRL is one of three Federal research laboratories within the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Research and Development.  The Laboratory is responsible for conducting engineering and environmental technology research to support the Agency in development of policy, regulations and guidance to further environmental protection in the U.S.  The research staff consists of 400 environmental and chemical engineers, chemists, microbiologists, economists, hydrologists and other scientists and support staff.  Key areas of research include: treatment and control of contaminants in drinking water, restoration of ecosystems, control of air pollutants, remediation of contaminated sites, environmental sustainability and environmental technology testing and development.

Mrs. Gutierrez was born and raised in Houston, Texas.  She received a Master of Science degree from the University of Texas, School of Public Health in Houston.  Her area of expertise is water resource management.  She was appointed NRMRL’s Director in 2005.  Prior to this appointment she was the Director of the Water Supply and Water Resources Division with the Laboratory.  During her tenure as Director of the Water Supply and Water Resources Division, she was responsible for leading a national technology demonstration program for control of arsenic in drinking water.  Prior to coming to U.S. EPA, she was responsible for administering several water programs for the State of Texas environmental agency in the areas of drinking water, water monitoring, wastewater treatment permitting, and utility rates.

She is a member of the American Water Works Association and the American Society of Civil Engineers and is past President of the Texas Environmental Health Association.  She is a member of the Board of Directors for AIDIS U.S.A.

John Kaestle

John joined HaloSource in 2004. Prior to joining, he was executive vice president and general manager of the Global Resins Business of Borden Chemical. This $900 million business included 37 operations in nine countries across the world. His career also includes 20 years with Weyerhaeuser Company. John is a graduate of Haverford College, where he received a degree in economics and quantitative methods. He received an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.

Mark LeChevallier, Ph.D.

Dr. LeChevallier received his Bachelor of Science and Masters degrees in Microbiology from Oregon State University in 1978 and 1980.  He worked as a Research Associate at Montana State University where he received his Ph.D. in Microbiology in 1985.  Since 1985 he has worked for American Water, a water utility operating in 32 states, and Canada; serving over 16 million people.  Dr. LeChevallier is currently the Director of Innovation & Environmental Stewardship at the American Water Corporate Center in Voorhees, NJ.  In this capacity he directs a staff of 18 for both the research and environmental compliance programs.

Research areas have included bacterial regrowth, disinfection of biofilms, corrosion, bacterial nutrients, AOC measurement techniques, biological treatment, Mycobacterium, microbial recovery and identification, modeling and impact of pressure transients on water quality, and detection, treatment and survival of Giardia and Cryptosporidium.  He has authored or coauthored over 100 research papers, most in peer-reviewed journals.  Several of his papers have received awards from the American Water Works Association for outstanding contributions to the science of water treatment.  He was the recipient of the George Warren Fuller award in 1997 from the New Jersey section of the American Water Works Association, and is a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology.  Dr. LeChevallier has been the principal investigator or co-investigator on over 60 research grants totaling nearly $27 million from the US Environmental Protection Agency, American Water Works Association, Awwa Research Foundation, WateReuse Foundation, and State agencies.  Dr. LeChevallier was named by Public Works magazine as a 2005 Trendsetter to “recognize leaders in the public works community who have defined policy, brought their community or an issue into the spotlight, or set the standard within the industry.”

Dr. LeChevallier also directs environmental compliance programs for American Water including the development of environmental management plans for more than 1,000 operating centers, environmental audits to ensure compliance, development of a national cross connection control program for American Water, and implementation of environmental stewardship and greenhouse gas control programs.  Dr. LeChevallier is a frequent speaker at regional, national and international conferences.  He has provided consulting services to a number of water utilities on issues dealing with biofilms, coliform monitoring, disinfection and chloramination, Giardia and Cryptosporidium, and corrosion control. 

Dr. LeChevallier currently serves as the chair of the AWWA Water Science and Research Division, and chair of the AWWA Total Coliform Rule Technical Action Workgroup (TCR TAW).  He was a negotiator representing the National Association of Water Companies on the USEPA Federal Advisory Committee for revisions to the Total Coliform Rule and currently serves on the Research and Information Collection Partnership panel for research to develop the Distribution System Rule.  He is the distribution system section editor for the Journal of the American Water Works Association and a member of the Research Advisory Committee for the WateReuse Research Foundation.  He was a member of the Distribution System Committee for the National Academy of Science, National Research Council.  He has served on a variety of professional committees and is the past-chair of Division Q of the American Society for Microbiology, and a past member of the Applied and Environmental Microbiology editorial board.  He has served several terms as a member and subgroup chair of the AWWA Research Foundation Research Advisory Committee and is currently a member of the Strategic Initiative group that is directing $5 million, 5-year program on distribution system research.  He is the chair of the Unsolicited Proposal Review Committee for the Water Research Foundation.  He has been an active participant in a number of USEPA committees, the Disinfection By-Product Council Technical Advisory Group, the STAR peer review panel, and the Drinking Water Advisory Committee.  He is a member of the American Water Works Association, the American Society for Microbiology, the World Health Organization drinking water revision committee, the International UV Association, and the International Water Quality Association.

F. Mark Modzelewski

Mark is a seasoned technology entrepreneur, executive, investor and visionary, currently focused on developing several early stage ventures in cleantech and health 2.0.
Mark is the former managing director and co-founder of Bang Ventures, an investment firm focused on technology investments including Web 2.0, new energy innovations and medical devices. He recently launched You Be the VC, a groundbreaking entrepreneurial competition. He also co-founded New Europe Ventures, a Polish-based venture capital firm, as well as the Benet Group, Leonardo BioSystems, Lux Research and the NanoBusiness Alliance. He has served as a senior executive at NanoDynamics (and continues to advise the company), Opion, GolinHarris and NRW. In addition, he has consulted for companies ranging from NanoSys to Engelhard to Mastercard to Yahoo to eSpeed to Pixar to DaimlerChrysler.
Mark is a member of the Nanotechnology Technical Advisory Group to the President’s Council of Advisers on Science and Technology (PCAST). He was recognized by Forbes as a “powerbroker” and has been featured in Time, Newsweek, U.S. News, ABC, BBC, N.Y. Times, Business Week, Fortune and the Wall Street Journal, among others. Mark also appears regularly as a Fox Business News and CNBC technology commentator and on occasion serves as a co-host of SquawkBox. He was also a featured columnist for the Boston Herald’s Hub 2.0 column.
Before entering the private sector, Mark was an appointee in the Clinton Administration developing policy, legal and communication strategy efforts on issues including Y2K preparedness, U.S. mortgage and banking systems, the online transformation and integration of HUD and FHA programs, digital divide efforts, biotech and organic food standards, and regional economic development programs. He is a graduate of the U. Denver College of Law (JD) and Boston U. (BFA, Painting). He is an avid supporter of the arts and also funds numerous animal charities, in particular pit bull rescue organizations and groups that combat breed specific legislation.

Simon Stringer

Simon Stringer, C Eng, MRAes, MIoD, is the Managing Director at Becatech Security Solutions & Technologies and Senior Advisor to Good Harbor Consulting. Simon started his professional career in 1984 joining the then British Aerospace as a test engineer on the Harrier and Hawk programmes. He undertook a number of different roles for the company including Assistant Chief Engineer Harrier and Operations Director for Tornado and Harrier aircraft.
Leaving the purely technical world in late 1997 Simon took the position of Site Director for Dunsfold Aerodrome managing all experimental test and development for the Harrier programmes as well as the manufacture and delivery before re-locating the production facilities to Lancashire in 1999. Here Simon took on the role of Head of Test Engineering and Development running all of the development facilities for the military and aerospace programmes.
In 2000 Simon took on the role of Project Director for the Ventures Organization, set up to maximize the use of BAE’s technology in parallel markets before being appointed Director Homeland Security leading BAE’s involvement in the counter terrorism and security areas.
In 2004 Simon left BAE SYSTEMS and joined QinetiQ as Managing Director of the Security and Intelligence Division leading the pan company initiatives in this area and overseeing a 40% growth in business in the first year.
In mid 2006, post QinetiQ’s flotation on the London stock exchange, Simon left QinetiQ to undertake a consultative role for a number of key international clients before joining BECATECH as Managing Director in December of 2006.
During his career Simon has undertaken a number of large programme trouble shooting roles and led deployments with the UK MoD and armed forces as well as various foreign forces including the USMC.
He is a respected figure in the Counter Terrorism and Security world and a Fellow of the Royal United Services Institute Homeland Security Programme and on the advisory board of Eden Intelligence with close ties to the CSTPV - Centre for Studies into Political Violence and Terrorism at St Andrews University. He is also a trustee of the Royal Naval Historic Flight and the Fleet Air Arm Museum.

Dr. Thomas Abraham

Dr. Abraham is president and founder of Innovative Research and Products, Inc. (http://www.innoresearch.net), an industry and market analysis company based in Stamford, CT. Dr. Abraham has been conducting market research in advanced materials for 24 years. Starting as Director of the Advanced Materials Group at Business Communications Co. (BCC) of Norwalk, CT, Dr. Abraham became its Vice President of Research. 

Dr. Abraham is experienced both as a materials scientist and technical economic analyst in the field of advanced and nano materials.  Dr. Abraham has completed over 50 multi-client market research studies in advanced materials and systems, nanomaterials and nanotechnology.  Dr. Abraham has been a frequent invited speaker on the state of the nano and advanced material industries at various international meetings.

Dr. Abraham has organized ten international conferences in Fine and Nano Powders, Nanoparticles, Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials. A graduate of Columbia University (MS and PhD.), Dr. Abraham had worked earlier for Brookhaven National Laboratory and the University of Denver.

One of the most important studies Dr. Abraham undertook was for the Office of Technology Assessment of the U.S. Congress on the “Strategies for Advanced Ceramic Materials in the U.S.” Dr. Abraham has also conducted technology transfer and commercialization studies for several companies and major laboratories.

Dr. Abraham was selected to be part of the US delegation to Australia in February 2008 at the US-Australia Cooperative Workshop on Sustainable Nanomanufacturing held in Brisbane and Melbourne where he delivered the keynote address on the state of the nanomaterials and nanotechnology industry.

Lawrence G. Almeda

Lawrence G. Almeda is chair of the Nanotechnology Practice Group at Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione. Mr. Almeda focuses his practice on patent opinions and prosecution in the medical, chemical, nanotechnology and mechanical arts. His practice has an emphasis on medical devices, nanomaterials, micro and nanodevices, petroleum and chemical processes, polymers, fuel cells, hybrid engines and polycarbonate glazing systems. He also has significant experience in counseling clients on patent infringement and validity evaluations.

Jim Alwood

Jim Alwood has been a program manager in the Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics’ Chemical Control Division for 25 years.  In addition to extensive experience with new chemical review under TSCA, he works on significant new use rules, TSCA biotechnology issues, and now coordinating TSCA nanotechnology issues under TSCA including directing the stewardship program for nanoscale materials.  He has a Bachelors of Science degree in Biology from Dickinson College and a Masters Degree in Environmental Science from George Washington University.

Mansoor Amiji, Ph.D.

Mansoor M. Amiji is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, Bouve College of Health Sciences at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts.

Dr. Amiji received his undergraduate degree in pharmacy (magna cum laude) from Northeastern University in the 1988 and a doctoral degree in pharmaceutics from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN in the summer of 1992. Dr. Amiji returned to Northeastern University as an Assistant Professor in January of 1993. He received tenure and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1999. During a sabbatical leave in 2000, Dr. Amiji worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Professor Robert Langer’s lab.

Dr. Amiji’s research focuses on polymeric technologies for delivery of drugs and genes to specific target sites in the body, nanotechnology for medical diagnosis and therapy, and development of biocompatible materials. He has published over 70 peer-reviewed publications, eight book chapters, and is an author of the books Applied Physical Pharmacy (McGraw-Hill, 2002) and “Polymeric Gene Delivery: Principles and Applications” (CRC Press, 2004). He also holds or has applied for several U.S. patents on polymeric technologies. He provides intellectual consulting services to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies. Dr. Amiji’s research is funded by the National Institutes of Health, biotechnology and medical device companies, and private foundations. Dr. Amiji has received a number of awards including the citation in Who’s Who in Science and Engineering (1996) and the third prize of the Eurand Award for Outstanding Research in Oral Drug Delivery (2003).

Dr. Mostafa Analoui, Ph.D,

Mostafa Analoui, Ph.D., is Head of Healthcare and Life Science at The Livingston Group (New York, NY) and Senior Vice President of Business Development at Charlesson Pharmaceuticals. Previously he was the Senior Director at Pfizer Global Research and Development in Connecticut. He is also adjunct Professor of Oral Pathology, Medicine and Radiology at Indiana University. Dr. Analoui is actively involved in investment, management and scientific/business development of nanotechnology, drug discovery/development, diagnostic imaging, and global strategies. Prior to joining Pfizer, Dr. Analoui was the Director of Oral and Maxillofacial Imaging Research at Indiana University, and Associate professor of Biomedical Engineering and Electrical & Comp Engineering at Purdue University. He was also President and CEO of Therametric Technology Inc. In addition to industry leadership in biomedical and technology fields, he lectures and consults nationally and internationally. He has also served on various scientific, regulatory, and business advisory committees and boards. Dr. Analoui has authored over 130 publications, including journal articles, book chapters, and technical reports.  He currently serves as board member of VirtualScopics Inc, BPT Pharma, NanoBusiness Alliance, and Calando Pharmaceuticals.

Alexei Andreev Ph.D.

Mr. Andreev has served as an Executive Vice President and as a Managing Director since March 2005. From 2002 to March 2005, he was an Associate with Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ), a venture capital firm, where he was exclusively focused on nanotechnology and material science investment opportunities. While at DFJ, he played an integral role in sourcing and funding EoPlex, Intematix, Solicore and D-Wave Systems, for which companies he served as an active Board Director or Observer. Previously, he worked for TLcom Capital Partners, a London-based venture capital fund backed by Morgan Stanley. Prior to that, he was employed by Renaissance Capital Group/Sputnik Funds, a venture capital fund in Moscow, Russia. Before he started his business career, he was a researcher at the Centre of Nanotechnology, ISAN (RAS), in Troitsk, Russia, where he was focused on optical and electrical properties of Quantum Dot heterostructures. He was graduated from the Department of Theoretical Physics of Moscow Steel & Alloys Institute (Ph.D.), where he was a recipient of the Scholarship for Outstanding Young Scientists of Russian Academia of Sciences, the Scholarship from the International Center of Fundamental Physics and Soros Scientific Foundation. He also was graduated from Moscow Steel & Alloys Institute (B.S.) with honors in Engineering/Material Sciences and from Stanford Graduate School of Business (M.B.A.).

Portfolio responsibilities: CFX Battery, Cobalt BioFuels, C-Switch, D-Wave Systems, Kovio, Molecular Imprints, NanoGram, NeoPhotonics, PolyRemedy and Xradia.

Peter Antionette

Peter has more than 25 years experience in sales, marketing, and executive business management initially in Fortune 500 corporations and more recently in small companies and start-ups. Prior to co-founding Nanocomp Technologies, Peter was the President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of Cambridge Research & Instrumentation Inc., a Massachusetts based early stage liquid crystal technology company. As its first business CEO, he transformed a decade old, family owned, “R&D/SBIR shop” into a vibrant hi-tech company, commercializing major new products that positioned the company in high-value telecommunications, photonics, and research markets. Under his management he raised several rounds of investment capital, with dramatic step-ups in shareholder value, quadrupled orders, and grew the company from 12 to 60 employees in three years. His prior experience in large companies included a 15 year career at Millipore Corporation, a Massachusetts based Fortune 500 instrument and separations company, where he capped time there as a Vice President and Division General Manager establishing and growing an instrumentation and software based technology business unit. He also held a number of management, sales, and marketing positions in various Millipore divisions. developing and marketing new products for the life science, pharmaceutical, and semiconductor process market domestically and overseas. Prior to Millipore he worked for CR Bard and Pfizer in sales positions. He received a bachelor of science degree in biology, has authored several technical publications, and holds one patent.

Chris Anzalone, Ph.D.

Dr. Anzalone is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Arrowhead Research Corporation (NASDAQ: ARWR).  He has a wealth of experience in nanotechnology, biotechnology, company-building, private equity, and venture capital.  Arrowhead is a nanotechnology holding company with subsidiaries in the electronics, energy, and biotechnology industries.  Arrowhead actively starts, acquires, and operates companies.  Prior to Arrowhead, Dr. Anzalone was founder and CEO of the Benet Group, Dr. a private equity firm focused on creating and building new nanobiotechnology companies from university-generated science. The Benet Group started Nanotope Inc., a tissue regeneration company, and Leonardo Biosystems Inc., a cancer drug delivery company, and Dr. Anzalone was founding CEO of both companies.  Prior to Benet, Dr. Anzalone was a partner at the Washington DC-based private equity firm Galway Partners, LLC. There, he was in charge of sourcing, structuring, and building new business ventures and was founding CEO of NanoInk, Inc., a leading nanolithography company.  While at Galway, he was also involved in starting and operating three other companies as well as acquiring and securitizing approximately $2bn of receiveables associated with the national tobacco settlement.  Dr. Anzalone holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Biology from UCLA and a B.A. in Government from Lawrence University.

Dave Arthur

David J. Arthur has more than 25 years experience commercializing products utilizing advanced materials, including work at such companies as Rogers Corporation, A.T. Cross Co., Composite Solutions, Helix Technologies and Eikos.

Arthur holds a bachelor of science degree in chemical engineering from Tufts University, master of science degree in chemical engineering from the University of Connecticut and a master of business administration degree from Northeastern University.  His research interests include the synthesis of nanomaterials and the fabrication of nanoscale features at a large scale.  He has strong technical and market knowledge in the field of carbon nanotubes.

Kate Bachman

As an award-winning editor of manufacturing trade publications STAMPING Journal® and The FABRICATOR®, Ms. Bachman witnessed the awakening of interest among her readers for advice, instruction, and guidance on energy efficiency, renewable energy generation, environmentally sound resource use and waste disposal, and sustainable manufacturing processes and facilities. This interest prompted the genesis for Green Manufacturer®. Ms. Bachman currently is launching the magazine’s premier issue, bringing green technology to North American manufacturers eager to incorporate it into their businesses.
Ms. Bachman has edited and written hundreds of articles on manufacturing practices, techniques, and machinery technology for nearly 10 years, published in Fabricators & Manufacturers Association Communications (FMAC) print and electronic magazines and Web site, http://www.thefabricator.com.
She serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Illinois Solar Energy Association and welcomes nanotechnology’s role in solar energy and other renewable energy forms.

Anita Balachandra

Over the course of 15 years, Ms. Balachandra has been immersed in Federal and state policies that influence technology development, commercialization and deployment. Most recently her work has focused on nanotechnology research and development for military and commercial applications, and renewable energy technology.  Ms. Balachandra has also worked to educate Federal policymakers on nano environmental, health and safety (EH&S) issues and the specific concerns of small businesses.

Previously, Ms. Balachandra worked for the Maryland Technology Development Corporation (TEDCO), where she served as a liaison between the small business community in Maryland and the Federal laboratories located in that state. Ms. Balachandra worked closely with Federal laboratories to showcase cutting-edge research as well as technology licensing opportunities.  She also worked with small technology-based businesses, including start-ups, to identify appropriate Federal laboratory resources, research collaborators, state and Federal funding sources and business assistance, such as incubator space.

At the U.S. Department of Commerce, Ms. Balachandra worked on a variety of technology policy issues, including state and local programs to support technology-based economic development, technology infrastructure issues, regulatory obstacles to technology development, and trade issues.  Her responsibilities included analyzing Federal technology programs for the purpose of recommending appropriate treatment under the WTO Subsidies Code and analyzing particular industries for the purpose of recommending Departmental action on pending legislation.  She developed and managed a grants program to support state and local efforts to promote technology-intensive companies.  She also spearheaded the development of the State Science & Technology Indicators, a tool for gauging state technology infrastructure.

Ms. Balachandra holds a BA in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley and a Master’s in City and Regional Planning from Cornell University.

Mark Banash, Ph.D.

Mark Banash is Vice President of Regulatory Affairs for Nanocomp Technologies, Inc.  With more than 20 years of experience in the chemicals and advanced materials industries, Mark has held a variety of positions ranging from basic research through product development to full-scale manufacturing.  Prior to Nanocomp, Mark was with Zyvex Corporation, where he was director for production and quality of the company’s nanomaterial products.  Before Zyvex, Mark was a senior scientist at Millennium Chemicals and worked extensively on product development and manufacturing issues related to the incorporation of the company’s pigment products in a variety of polymer matrices.  Mark holds a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Princeton University, an M.B.A. from the University of Maryland University College, and a B.A. with honors in chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania.  He is an adjunct faculty member in operations and technology management at the University of Maryland University College.  He is also a member of the American Society for Quality and is a Six Sigma Black Belt.

Rashid Bashir

Rashid Bashir completed his BSEE from Texas Tech University as the highest ranking graduate in the College of Engineering in Dec 1987. He completed his MSEE from Purdue University in 1989 and Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1992. From Oct 1992 to Oct 1998, he worked at National Semiconductor in the Analog/Mixed Signal Process Technology Development Group where he was promoted to Sr. Engineering Manager in the Process Technology Group. He joined Purdue University in Oct 1998 as Assistant Professor and was Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Courtesy Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. Since Oct 2007, he is the Abel Bliss Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering & Bioengineering and Director of the Micro and Nano Technology Laboratory at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He has authored or co-authored over 140 journal and conference papers, over 50 invited talks, and has been granted 30 patents. His research interests include BioMEMS, Lab on a chip, nano-biotechnology, interfacing biology and engineering from molecular to tissue scale, and applications of semiconductor fabrication to biomedical engineering, all applied to solve biomedical problems.

Lynn Bergeson

Lynn L. Bergeson is Managing Director of Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. (B&C), a Washington, D.C. law firm concentrating on conventional and engineered nanoscale chemical, pesticide, and other specialty chemical product regulation and approval matters, domestic and foreign chemical classification, chemical product litigation, and associated business issues. Ms. Bergeson is also President of The Acta Group, L.L.C. and The Acta Group EU, Ltd, B&C’s consulting affiliates, with offices in Washington, D.C. and Manchester, U.K., respectively. 

Ms. Bergeson counsels clients on health, safety, science policy, and related legal and regulatory aspects of traditional domestic chemical regulatory programs under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), as well as on issues pertinent to nanotechnology and other emerging transformative technologies.  Ms. Bergeson serves on the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) Nanotechnology Technical Advisory Group (PCAST nTAG), and served on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Steering Committee for the Pollution Prevention through Nanotechnology Conference. Ms. Bergeson served in 2004 and 2005 on the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Nanotechnology Standards Panel (NSP) Steering Committee and is now a member of the ISO Technical Committee 229 on Nanotechnologies. Ms. Bergeson also serves on the Board of Directors of Earth Day Network and is a member of its Executive Committee. She serves on the Board of the Converging Technologies Bar Association (CTBA) and is Chair of the CTBA Environmental, Health, and Safety Committee. Ms. Bergeson was Chair of the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources (SEER) (2005-2006), is the past Chair of the SEER Pesticides, Chemical Regulation, and Right-to-Know Committee (PCRRTKC) (2006-2008), and is now Vice Chair of the PCRRTKC, and serves in other ABA leadership positions. Ms. Bergeson is also a member of the ALI-ABA Environmental Law Advisory Panel.

Keith Blakely

Keith Blakely is a serial entrepreneur, having started his first company, Advanced Refractory Technologies, Inc. (ART), in Buffalo, NY in 1981 at the age of 24 after spending four years at the Carborundum Company in Niagara Falls, NY.  For the next twenty years, he served as ART’s Chairman, President & CEO, overseeing its growth from a 2 person operation to over 300 people with two international joint ventures and three domestic facilities.  During his tenure, he established relationships with General Motors, Bekaert, Mitsubishi, Westinghouse, McDermott International, United Defense, and many others. The company was recognized as a worldwide leader in advanced materials when it was acquired by a subsidiary of Tyco International in June, 2001.
Following the sale of ART, Mr. Blakely established a technology management consulting organization – The InVentures Group – which provides technology assessments, business planning, and technology commercialization to organizations on a global basis.  In that capacity, Blakely served as the COO of a NASDAQ listed fuel cell company headquartered in NYC and the CEO of a privately-held nanomaterials company based in St. Louis, MO.  He also founded and serves as Chairman of First Wave Technologies, Inc., an organization dedicated to the commercialization of innovative products and technologies developed in upstate NY.  In 2002, Blakely started NanoDynamics, Inc., a leader in the commercialization of nanomaterials and nanotechnology-enabled components and systems.  He served as its CEO until 2009, overseeing the development and commercial launch of disruptive new products for the energy, environmental, and infrastructure markets. 
Mr. Blakely, who was elected a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society in 2001, has significant board-level experience and has served on the boards of several public and private organizations, including the Buffalo-Niagara International Trade Council, the Western New York Technology Development Corporation, and the Buffalo Economic Renaissance Corporation.  He is a two time winner of Research and Development Magazines “IR-100” award for the 100 most technologically significant new products, holds several US patents, was profiled in Figaro magazine, has appeared on CNBC’s Squawkbox business program, and is the author of numerous technical and business articles.  In 2007, he was named Business Leader of the Year by Small Times Magazine.

Jurron Bradley

Jurron Bradley received his bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Vanderbilt University in 1995 and his doctorate in chemical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2000.  For his Ph.D. research, he quantified the consolidation process of fiber-reinforced polymer composites.  After graduating from Georgia Tech, he entered the workforce at Praxair, Inc. designing air separation and argon recycle plants and managing a thermodynamics lab.  Next, he led research efforts to reduce mercury emissions from coal-fired boilers and also worked on the development of technology to reduce NOX emissions from coal-fired boiler.  Then, from 2006-2008, he worked on technical planning and strategy for the entire research and development organization (which includes the research areas of electronics, biopharma, food and beverage, combustion and adsorption, just to name a few).  Early this year, he joined Lux Research as a Senior Analyst.  Lux Research provides strategic advice and on-going intelligence for emerging technologies. Leaders in business, finance, and government rely on Lux Research to help them make informed strategic decisions. Through Lux’s unique research approach focused on primary research and extensive global network, we deliver insight, connections, and competitive advantage to our clients.

Sam Brauer, Ph.D.

Samuel Brauer, Ph.D. is the founder of Nanotech Plus, LLC an alliance of consultants focused on the business of nanotechnology offering analysis and operational assistance in this burgeoning field to major corporations, small materials companies, venture and angel investors, and other financial institutions.  Projects have ranged from evaluating patent portfolios to estimating markets for novel therapeutics.  He has also worked with the American Psychoanalytic Association analyzing data on clinical practice for a number of years.

Prior to Nanotech Plus, he was with the Business Communications Company for 7 years, leading market research on a broad range of advanced materials topics including polymer nanocomposites, carbon nanotubes, advanced polymer composites, DNA micro arrays and in vitro toxicology. 

He received his doctorate in bioinorganic chemistry involving chromium carcinogenesis from Dartmouth in 1990 and did a postdoctoral stint on protein structure at UC Davis.

Kevin Brophy

Mr. Kevin Brophy is a Founder and the CEO of Meidlinger Partners, LLC. A finance professional with a wide range of experience in the infrastructure sector ranging from utility operations to public utility rate design to mergers, acquisitions and strategic planning, Mr. Brophy brings a broad range of skills and training to Meidlinger Partners. He maintains responsibility for the daily operations of the firm, manages investor relations, works with the Advisory Board and Investment Committee, and oversees the financial review of potential investments. Mr. Brophy chairs the firm’s Investment Committee and also plays an integral role in strategic planning for portfolio companies.
Prior to co-founding Meidlinger Partners in 2008, Mr. Brophy held roles in operations as well as director positions (Investor Relations, Corporate Development) with Aqua America, Inc. (Aqua) (NYSE: WTR), one of the nation’s largest publicly traded water utility companies serving approximately three million people in 13 states. The latter half of Mr. Brophy’s 13 year career with Aqua consisted of executive roles in mergers, acquisitions, business development, investor relations and strategic planning. He participated with special projects such as public utility rate case filings and follow-on equity offerings and occasionally managed aspects of Aqua’s securities portfolio, including equities and derivatives.
From 2004 – 2007, Mr. Brophy held full responsibility for Aqua’s ‘growth-through-acquisition’ program throughout the state of Texas.  Residing in Austin with a target region spanning the state, Mr. Brophy directed the acquisition of numerous companies for Aqua and executed more than 12 real estate development growth ventures.
Mr. Brophy’s experiences with Aqua provided a strong foundation from which to launch a private equity firm focused on sustainable, clean technology investing with a focus on water resource management, alternative energy, energy efficiency, pollution reduction and waste management. The knowledge and skills required to succeed, such as strategic planning, capital budgeting, regulatory pricing and rates, business development, operations management and integrating technological advancements can be applied to each field.
Mr. Brophy studied finance and business administration at Villanova University, attended the NARUC Utility Rate School program, NCEE’s Mergers, Acquisitions and Business Valuation curriculum and London Business School’s Private Equity Program. Mr. Brophy is a member of Investors’ Circle, a leading network of private and institutional investors using private capital to promote the transition to a sustainable economy.

Mr. Brophy competes in running events, triathlons and adventure races and has his sights set on competing in an Ironman triathlon in 2009.

Dr. Charles Brumlik, Esq.

Dr. Brumlik is president and co-founder of Nanobiz, LLC. (http://www.nanobizllc.com), a firm assisting in commercializing cross-disciplinary advanced materials and industrial processes. Charles Brumlik is also a business and IP attorney who advises Fortune 500 companies, angels, venture capital groups, and startup technology companies around the world. Dr. Brumlik specializes in commercialization, due diligence, and technology sourcing in alternate energy, materials, cleantech and nanotechnology. Representative areas include membranes, separations, chemical functionalization, ultrafine particles, high surface area materials, cermets, displays, solid state lighting, sensors, and electronics.
Commencing with his Ph.D. dissertation entitled “Nanochemistry and Nanomaterials” at Texas A&M, Dr. Brumlik has 20 years of experience working with nanotechnology. He has over 20 nanotechnology publications and patents in nanotechnology including nanoparticle hydrogen storage, electrochemical energy storage, and related processes.

David A. Bunzow

Kyle Cahill

Kyle Cahill is a manager in the Corporate Partnership Program at Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), a leading environmental nonprofit organization that links science, economics, law and innovative partnerships to create breakthrough solutions to pressing environmental problems. EDF leverages markets mechanisms and economics to create significant environmental and social change.

At EDF, Kyle collaborates directly with the private sector to leverage new technologies and best practices that improve corporate environmental performance in areas including: climate change strategies, safer products and materials, clean vehicles and paper and packaging. In his work, he has also done significant research and analysis on the reputational benefits of green initiatives. Kyle is currently focused on improved supply chain management processes and strategies for the safe commercialization of nanotechnology-enabled environmental technologies.

Prior to EDF, Kyle counseled Fortune 500 companies on social responsibility initiatives, thought leadership strategies, investor relations, and crisis communications at Edelman. He earned his M.B.A. focused in corporate social responsibility from the Isenberg School at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he studied the influence of environmental and social values on financial decision-making. He earned his B.A. in English Literature from Amherst College.

Robert Chang

Michael Chui, Ph.D.

Michael is a dynamic technology and business professional with a broad range of experience in high tech corporate and entrepreneurial ventures. His experience includes product and business development as well as engineering and general management. Michael has led multiple new product development projects, and he is the recipient of an R&D 100 award and six patents. He has extensive international experience, including the creation of an overseas global product development business unit. His most recent responsibilities include work at Teradyne as a General Manager for the custom engineering and services group where he was responsible for the overall management of the group’s marketing, applications, engineering and support operations. Michael earned a M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and is enrolled in the MIT/Sloan School of Management’s MBA program where he is focusing on systems design and technology strategy.

Shaun Clancy, Ph.D.

Shaun Clancy is presently Director of Product Regulatory Services for Evonik Degussa Corporation, the U.S. subsidiary of Evonik Industries of Germany.  Product Regulatory Services provides product safety and regulatory affairs support to many of Evonik’s businesses that operate in North America.  He is a chemist and did his undergraduate work at the University of Buffalo, State University of New York and performed his graduate studies at Northwestern University.  With respect to Nanotechnology Dr. Clancy is interested in learning about the information needed to ensure that nanoscale materials can be used safely and the impact of this information on chemical control laws and regulations.

Tom Cooper

In this capacity, Tom’s responsibilities include wastewater policy and program development, long range goal setting and related water conservation initiatives.  He has been with Intel for ~12 years and has 24 years of experience in EHS programs with major industrial corporations/institutions including Lockheed-Martin, GE, PG&E, NASA-Ames Research Center and Chemical Waste Management.  He has a BS in Environmental & Systematic Biology from California Polytechnic State University, and an MS in Environmental Management from the University of San Francisco.

Pankaj Dhingra

Pankaj Dhingra is the president and CEO of Nanostellar, a clean technology company that develops engineered nano-materials for emissions control, biofuels and energy storage applications.  Pankaj has more than 25 years of experience in both corporate and start-up worlds, including managing two technology startups and a global automotive components business. His functional experience spans sales, finance, strategic planning and mergers and acquisitions with Delphi, General Motors and Unisys. Pankaj has BS in Electrical Engineering from India and MBA in Marketing and Finance from Columbia University.

Mary Ann Dickinson

Mary Ann Dickinson is the founder and Executive Director of the Alliance for Water Efficiency, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the efficient and sustainable use of water in the United States and Canada.  Based in Chicago, the Alliance works with water utilities, water conservation professionals in business and industry, planners, regulators, and consumers.  Prior to joining the Alliance in July of 2007, Mary Ann was Executive Director of the California Urban Water Conservation Council, a non-profit organization composed of 387 urban water supply agencies, environmental groups, and other entities managing statewide water conservation in California and implementing the nation’s first set of Best Management Practices. 

Mary Ann has over 35 years of experience, having worked at the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, the South Central Connecticut Regional Water Authority, and the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection.  A graduate of the University of Connecticut with a degree in environmental planning, she has authored numerous publications on water conservation, land use planning, and natural resources management, and has co-produced two films which have aired on public television and community cable stations.  She is a fellow at the Water Resources Center at the University of California at Santa Cruz, a Trustee and past Chair of the American Water Works Association National Water Conservation Division, and has presented numerous papers on water conservation in Spain, France, Australia, Korea, Jordan, Israel, Italy, Chile, China, Romania, Canada, and all across the United States.

Allen Dines

Mr. Dines is Assistant Director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Office of Corporate Relations (OCR).  Operating within the Office of the Chancellor, the Office of Corporate Relations assists the business community in accessing the diverse resources of the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison).  As Assistant Director, he works principally with new ventures and private equity.  He serves as Program Manager for OCR’s entrepreneurship programs including its Startup Initiative and Wiscontrepreneur funded in part under the Kauffman Campuses Program of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. 

Mr. Dines joined the UW-Madison in 2001 bringing with him more than 25 years of experience in industry and technology management.  He founded, grew and sold two biotech startups and in his initial position at the university he served as Assistant Director for Business Development, within the Graduate School where his major focus was commercialization of university technology through startup business development.  In 2002, Mr. Dines co-founded the Midwest Research University Network (MRUN), an alliance of Midwest research institutions dedicated to regional cooperation in the commercialization of university research through new business creation

Anil Diwan, Ph.D.

Anil Diwan is the president of Nanovicides, Inc. a company developing novel antiviral technologies.  Located in West Haven, CT, this firm has developed a platform technology which has been shown to have excellent efficacy in laboratory studies on the viruses that lead to: HIV, herpes simplex, various forms of influenza, as well as several viral ophthalmic infections.
Nanoviricides technology (licensed from TheraCour®, a privately held company founded by Dr. Diwan.) involves novel polymeric-micelles which have been under development since 1991.  The technology has one issued patent, three filed international patent applications, and several additional patent applications in various stages. NanoViricides, Inc. was founded by Dr. Diwan, Dr. Seymour and others to commercialize these unique nanomedicine antiviral technologies.
Dr. Diwan is a prolific inventor and a serial entrepreneur. Prior to founding NanoViricides, Inc., he has founded TheraCour Pharma, Inc., a privately held company working in nanomedicines.  Additionally he founded AllExcel, Inc., a company with diverse portfolio including nanomedicines, small chemicals, device technologies, and informatics. He has won several NIH SBIR grant awards.
Anil holds a Ph.D. from Rice University, TX, and a Bachelors in Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT-B), India.  He has over 18 years of bio-pharmaceutical R&D experience as well as 12 years of experience as an entrepreneur.

Jon Dudas

Jon Dudas is a partner with Foley & Lardner LLP, where he works with the IP Litigation and Government & Public Policy Practices.

Mr. Dudas joined Foley as former Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office. In this role, Mr. Dudas advised the president of the United States, the secretary of commerce, and the administration about intellectual property matters and administered the laws of granting patents and trademarks and led the $2 billion agency and its more than 9,000 employees. As head of the world’s leading intellectual property (IP) office, Mr. Dudas also developed and articulated administration positions on patent, copyright, and trademark issues, both domestic and foreign.

As the nation’s top IP official, Mr. Dudas personally spearheaded an unprecedented number of patent cooperation and development missions with Brazil, China, Europe, India, Japan, Korea, Mexico and several other countries to improve IP systems globally and help innovators establish and enforce IP rights throughout the world.

Mr. Dudas was nominated by President George W. Bush in March 2004 and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in July 2004. He previously served as acting under secretary and director, and deputy under secretary and deputy director from 2002 to 2004.

Mr. Dudas also served six years as counsel to the U.S. House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property, and staff director and deputy general counsel for the House Judiciary Committee. He guided enactment of major patent, trademark, and copyright policy, including the 1999 American Inventors Protection Act and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. In addition, he was instrumental in the passage of the 1996 Trademark Anti-Counterfeiting Consumer Protection Act, a law making it more difficult for seized counterfeit merchandise to re-enter the consumer marketplace.

Before his employment with the House of Representatives, Mr. Dudas practiced law in Chicago, focusing his practice on litigation with an emphasis on copyright and trademark issues.

Mr. Dudas obtained his Bachelor of Science in finance, summa cum laude, from the University of Illinois and his law degree from the University of Chicago, with honors. He is a member of the Illinois State Bar and the Bar of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

Mr. Dudas is admitted in Illinois only. His practice is limited to matters before federal courts and agencies.

Ron Durando

Ron Durando is a long time, successful entrepreneur.  He has a background in both engineering and corporate finance. 
Ron has been Chief Operating Officer of Microphase since 1994.  When he joined Microphase, he worked with founder Ned Ergul to revive the corporation and adjust both its mission and operating style to accommodate changes in the market.  He was instrumental in turning around the company and has doubled its revenues during his tour as Chief Operating Officer.
Ron started and successfully ran an RF Contract Manufacturing based in China in from August 1996 until December 2008.  The company grew from 6 employees operating in 6500 sq feet to over 1000 employees at it’s peek in a 150,000 square foot facility.
In October 1996 he founded mPhase Technologies, Inc.  He has been its President and Chief Executive Officer since the company’s inception.  Under Ron’s leadership mPhase produced and sold a very successful line of DSL components and he has now completed the transition of mPhase into a battery technology company that is now developing an innovative battery technology based upon breakthroughs in Microfludics and Nanotechnology.

Dr. Dana Durham, Ph.D.

Dr. Durham is an associate with Nanobiz, LLC (http://www.nanobizllc.com), a firm assisting in commercializing cross-disciplinary advanced materials and industrial processes.  Dana has expertise in Product Lifecycle Management, strategy development and technology assessment.  Prior to joining Nanobiz, Dana served as R&D director for several Fortune 500 companies providing materials to the semiconductor and flat panel display industries.  He holds nearly 40 US patents.

Don Ewert

The year 2009’ marks Don’s 32nd year as a practicing Industrial Hygienist with a career start as Radiation Safety Officer for North Dakota’s largest radioisotope user.  During his tenure with North Dakota State University, Don completed his Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry and worked towards a Masters degree in Business Administration along with a PhD in Biochemistry.  In 1985, Don founded HTI Laboratories and Industrial Consultants, an environmental engineering and consulting firm. This start-up venture gained national recognition and in 1990, the company boasted more than 100 EHS professionals working from 5 offices nationwide.  As a leading field & laboratory services organization, HTI served some of our country’s largest corporations as well as a Who’s Who of institutional, industrial, and governmental cliental.  Through HTI, Don oversaw environmental sampling of the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers, remediation of medical facilities at Guantanamo Bay Cuba, creation of the first EPA-NIST Certified Mobile Laboratory, and development of three major environmental laws.  Following years as an expert witness in the area of forensic toxicology, Don accepted a position as Research Scholar in the Center for Environmental Toxicology & Technology at Colorado State University and furthered his graduate work in Environmental Health and Toxicology.  Upon leaving CSU, Don began work with the Fort Peck Tribes of Northeastern Montana.  There, he led the tribal nation toward satisfaction of a major consent decree.  At the conclusion of this work, Don returned to Colorado where he served as the Environmental, Health, & Safety Manager for NanoProducts Corporation, a venture capitalized nanomaterials chemical manufacturer.  In this position, he provided guidance to an anxious health community concerned about the potentially toxic effects of nanoscale compound exposures.  More recently, Don joined OSO BioPharmaceuticals, formerly Catalent Pharma Solutions, in their New Mexico based corporate operations.  With OsoBio, Don provides global EH&S management over FDA-cGMP Risk Programs and utilizes his vast industrial hygiene and environmental experience to create leading edge exposure control practices involving a wide range of potent pharmaceutical compounds.  Don is also Chairman of the American Industrial Hygiene Association’s Nanotechnology Working Group where his leadership skills are being used to benefit the professionals and public served by this important organization.

Antionio Facchetti

Antonio Facchetti obtained his Laurea degree in Chemistry cum laude and a PhD in Chemical Sciences at the University of Milan under the supervision of Prof Giorgio Pagani. He then carried out postdoctoral research at the University of California-Berkeley with Prof Andrew Streitwieser and at Northwestern University with Prof Tobin Marks. In 2002 he joined Northwestern University where he is currently a Research Associate Professor. He is a co-founder of Polyera Corporation. Dr Facchetti has published about 110 research articles and holds 23 patents.

Lisa Farmen

Ms. Farmen is the Founder and President of Crystal Clear Technologies, Inc., which is developing nanotechnology capable of removing biological and chemical contaminants from water at a cost affordable to the majority of the world’s population.
Ms. Farmen received her B.S.-M.S. from Colorado State University and Executive M.B.A. in International Business from Golden Gate University in San Francisco.
As a chemical engineer, she built an OEM engineering and manufacturing company specializing in water, wastewater and chemical recovery systems for the electronics industry. She built revenue to $8M then sold the company to a group of investors.
Crystal Clear Technologies was started after graduating from GGU in 2000 as a consulting engineering company and then incorporated with a Phase 1 Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) grant with the National Science Foundation (NSF).  CCT won a Phase 2 SBIR grant of $1MM for commercialization of the technology developed in Phase 1. A third SBIR Phase 2 (r) SBIR grant for $220K was won with a NSF Engineering Research Center (ERC) to model the nanocoatings. CCT won a $225K ONAMI Gap Grant with the Univ. of Oregon.
Crystal Clear Technologies won the 2006 California Clean Technology Open (CCTO) for the best emerging “Clean-green” technology for Water Management. The CCTO competition is a business plan competition in California for clean green emerging California companies.
Ms. Farmen was a guest speaker at the Water Finance & Investment Summit and the NanoBusiness Alliance 2007& 2008, both in NYC and a panelist for the American Bar Association conference on Nanotechnology and the Clean Water Act.
UltraPure Water magazine profiled Ms. Farmen in their March/April 2008 publication.
Crystal Clear Technologies, Inc. was highlighted to Congress in 2007 by the National Science Foundation and the Senate in 2008 showcasing the success of the Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) program.
Ms. Farmen was awarded the Rising Star alumni award from GGU in 2007.

Neal Fowler

Neal Fowler is Liquidia’s Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Fowler joined Liquidia after seven successful years at Johnson & Johnson. Formerly, he was president of Centocor, Inc., a multi-billion dollar subsidiary focused on development and commercialization of industry leading biomedicines used in the treatment of chronic inflammatory diseases. At Centocor, Mr. Fowler prepared the company for the launch of two potential blockbuster products and continued the company’s legacy of double-digit growth for their flagship product REMICADE® (infliximab). Prior to Centocor, Mr. Fowler was president of Ortho-McNeil Neurologics Inc. and vice president of the central nervous system franchise at Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceuticals. Mr. Fowler joined Johnson & Johnson after a successful 13-year career at Eli Lilly and Company, where he doubled sales of the cardiovascular business unit over a three-year period. Mr. Fowler is a native of Raleigh, NC and received a Bachelor of Science degree in Pharmacy and Masters of Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH).

Peter Frykman

Driptech inc. produces low cost drip irrigation systems for use by small farmers in developing countries. The innovative design and proprietary, automated manufacturing system improves upon current drip systems by eliminating a large number of parts, reducing installation time and dramatically lowering costs. It has the potential to become the most cost effective and easily used drip irrigation system for small plot farmers in developing nations. Through pilot tests with farmers in India, Driptech has gained valuable insight into how to help the developing world’s rural farmers produce food for consumption and sale in the face of water scarcity.  Through novel manufacturing and distribution Driptech can profitably reach the hundreds of millions of people who have been unable to use drip irrigation until now, and in the process, save tremendous amounts of water. 

Peter Frykman, founder and CEO of Driptech inc., received his BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University, where he focused on manufacturing and design.  He is vitally concerned with the challenge of water scarcity, especially in developing countries.  His professional interests include mechatronics, medical devices, and design for extreme affordability.  He is an avid rower and two time national champion for Stanford.

Michael Gallagher

Mr. Gallagher’s career includes over twenty-three years as a senior executive with Chicago based Amsted Industries a $3.0 billion company. At Amsted Mr. Gallagher had profit and loss responsibility with Board of Director relationship in managing key businesses. Positions included: President of Amsted Industries International, encompassing the management of international manufacturing operations, export sale of products, licensing of manufacturing and design technologies and management of Amsted global intellectual property portfolio, represented by over 2,000 patents and trademarks, Vice-President of Sales, Marketing and Product Development with Amsted division Burgess-Norton a $150 million operation supplying precision components for the vehicular, general industrial medical and recreation markets. Director of Engineering and Technical Services for Griffin Wheel Company a $300 million division, responsible for product, process and facility engineering and development. Directorships have included, The Murugappa Group, TI Industries, Chennai, India, International Standards Organization, ISO, Chairman and Secretariat Railway Rolling Stock, Chicago Area Runners Association and Mid-America Club. Mr. Gallagher completed his engineering degree at Michigan Technological University and is a graduate of the advanced executive program at Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management.

Charlie Gause

In late 2004, Luna Innovations successfully launched a public-private partnership to establish a one-of-a-kind nanomaterials development and manufacturing facility in Danville, Virginia called Luna nanoWorks. Charles Gause directed this project which transformed a 24,000-square-foot historic tobacco warehouse into a premiere nanomaterials facility, by establishing division operations, business development, and manufacturing processes.  With an extensive manufacturing and engineering science background, Gause is currently identifying and developing market opportunities based upon Luna’s nanotechnologies including therapeutic and diagnostic pharmaceutical products, alternative energy solutions with organic solar cells and defense applications.

Gause is active in nanotechnology policy initiatives such as the NanoHealth Enterprise, Northern Virginia’s Technology Council’s Nanotechnology Committee and is a founding member of the Accelerating Innovation Foundation.  Likewise, he is a member of the State of Virginia’s Joint Commission on Technology and Science Nanotechnology Advisory Committee (JCOTS) and is the President of the Southern Piedmont Technology Council (SPTC).  He serves on Danville Community College’s Workforce Advisory Board and the Chamber of Commerce’s Educational Advisory Board for Southern Virginia.

Charles Geraci, Ph.D.

Dr. Charles Geraci is overall Coordinator of the NIOSH Nanotechnology Research Center and is also Chief of the Document Development Branch.  He has over 30 years of Industrial Hygiene practice experience that has included the federal government, consulting, and private industry.  Dr. Geraci earned a B.S. in chemistry from the University of Cincinnati and a Ph.D. in chemistry from the Michigan State University.  He is Board Certified in both the Comprehensive Practice and the Chemical Aspects of Industrial Hygiene and is a Fellow of the American Industrial Hygiene Association. Dr. Geraci manages a number of nanotechnology projects in the Institute and is responsible for the development of workplace guidelines, including the document “Approaches to Safe Nanotechnology”.  He sponsors the NIOSH nanotechnology field team that is conducting visits to nanomaterial producers and users to characterize exposures, evaluate controls, and develop best practices.  As Chief of Document Development, Dr. Geraci manages projects dealing with the development of recommendations to address worker health and safety in new or emerging technologies.  Dr. Geraci has made numerous presentations on nanotechnology at national and international meetings; has served on the planning and organizing committees for many of those same meetings; and has served as co-author on several publications dealing with risk management of nanomaterials.  His research interests include development of exposure monitoring methods, evaluating the effectiveness of training, developing effective methods for risk characterization and management, and assessing the hazards and risks of new technologies.

Keith Gillard

Mr. Gillard is Principal of BASF Venture Capital America, based in Silicon Valley, California.  Mr. Gillard has twenty years’ experience as an investor and entrepreneur, with the past eight years focused on cleantech and advanced materials.  Since joining BASF in March 2006, he has led investments into SDCmaterials Inc., Pangaea Ventures II Ltd., Luca Technologies LLC, Ultracell Corporation, ARCH Venture Fund VII, Arcadia Biosciences, Inc. and Sciona, Inc.

From 2001-2006, Mr. Gillard was with Mitsubishi Corporation and responsible for technology-related investment and business development activities in Canada, with a specific focus on cleantech.  Mr. Gillard was the only non-Japanese member of the Mitsubishi Corporation Fuel Cell Business Development Office in Tokyo, and was instrumental in establishing Japanese markets and partners for several Canadian and American cleantech companies. 

Prior to joining Mitsubishi, Mr. Gillard began his career in investment banking, structuring mergers and acquisitions as well as manufacturing technology joint ventures into China.  In the late ‘90’s, he had a five-year spell as an entrepreneur in IT, establishing three companies in succession and taking them from business plan through financing to completion of product and exit. 

Mr. Gillard currently sits on the boards of ARCH Venture Fund VII, Chrysalix Energy Limited Partnerships I and II, Pangaea Ventures II Ltd., Sciona Inc., SDCmaterials Inc. and Ultracell Corporation, and is a board observer for Arcadia Biosciences Inc.  He also sits on the Advisory Board of the National Venture Capital Association Corporate Venture Group, and is the co-author of “Inside the Minds: Energy Venture Capital Best Practices”, published in 2008 by Aspatore Books.  Mr. Gillard is a member of the selection committee of the Cleantech Venture Forum, advisory committees of the IBF Nanotech Conference, Larta Institute’s Venture Forum and the Small Times NanoCon, and is a founding member of the Californian Consortium on Green Chemistry and the Synthetic Biology Industry Association. 

About BASF Venture Capital America Inc.
BASF Venture Capital America Inc. was established in 2001 as the American arm of BASF Venture Capital GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of BASF Future Business GmbH, Ludwigshafen, Germany.  BASF Venture Capital participates in startup companies and funds by providing venture capital to open up new growth potentials. In doing so, it focuses on companies with innovative business models and technologies in which chemistry is an important key to success. Investment is channeled toward companies that can demonstrate successful applications for their product developments as well as market demand. BASF also supports these companies with its expertise.

About BASF
BASF is the world’s leading chemical company: The Chemical Company. Its portfolio ranges from chemicals, plastics, performance products, agricultural products and fine chemicals to crude oil and natural gas. As a reliable partner to virtually all industries, BASF’s intelligent system solutions and high-value products help its customers to be more successful. BASF develops new technologies and uses them to open up additional market opportunities. It combines economic success with environmental protection and social responsibility, thus contributing to a better future. BASF has over 95,000 employees and posted sales of more than EUR 62.3 billion (approximately USD 80 billion) in 2008. Further information on BASF is available on the Internet at http://www.basf.com.

Dr. Eric Granstrom

Dr. Granstrom obtained his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Minnesota, a M.S. in Applied Physics from Yale, and an M.B.A. from the Carlson School of Management. His expertise includes process and device work in electronic materials and nanofabrication.

Anthony Green

Anthony P. Green, Ph.D., is Vice President, Technology Commercialization Group:  Life Sciences for Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania (BFTP/SEP) and Ben Franklin Director of The Nanotechnology Institute™ (NTI).  Dr. Green is also Visiting Research Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Drexel University.
At BFTP/SEP, Dr. Green is focused on Ben Franklin’s larger and region-wide technology partnerships and major initiatives, include the NTI, the Mid-Atlantic Nanotechnology Alliance (MANA®), new and evolving life sciences initiatives including the IP Donation Program and Keystone Innovation Zones (KIZs), and the development and implement new commercialization models.  Dr. Green has over 30 years experience in the biotechnology industry, with a specialization in the research, development and commercialization of cutting-edge technologies primarily in small, emerging companies, including Centocor and Puresyn.  Dr. Green earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Immunology, with Honors, from Brown University, in Providence, Rhode Island and his Ph.D. from Temple University School of Medicine, in Microbiology and Immunology.

David Gulley Ph.D.

David L. Gulley, PhD, is Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of Illinois at Chicago.  For 20 years, he has provided leadership at UIC for research initiatives and technology-based economic development efforts.  Gulley is active with Illinois’ technology and research community, serving on industry association leadership committees and represents the University through service on non-profit boards and committees.  He is active with AUTM, serving as Assistant Vice President for Professional Development and past Graduate Course Chair; and BIO, serving as past Academic-Industry chair, a member of BIO’s Technology Transfer Committee, and a member of annual meeting planning committees.  He holds a BA and PhD from Southern Illinois University and a Master’s graduate degree from Virginia Tech.

Michael Gurin

Michael Gurin is CEO of reXorce Thermionics, Inc. and has been instrumental in creating the vision and technology road map for integrating nanotechnology materials into reXorce’s thermal engine technology.  Mr. Gurin had co-invented the core nanotechnology for conductivity enhancement and invented technology extensions of a NASA licensed supercritical air conditioning / refrigeration absorption system.  He is a 15-year veteran of technology and business development in which he strategically guided CogniTek, as past president, from non-linear optimization within thermodynamic processes to the incorporation of nanoscale technologies into a wide range of heat transfer systems.  Mr. Gurin has experience in achieving growth through start-ups and is now leading reXorce Thermionics Inc. in the commercialization of a high efficiency supercritical thermal engine having applications from solar thermal and geothermal to a high efficiency (greater than 70%) alternative to the internal combustion engine.

Shai Halvini

Shai has served as general counsel and in-house counsel for private and public companies, and domestic and international companies, ranging from less than $100M in annual revenue to $40+ billion in annual revenue.  Since 2007, Shai has served as General Counsel of Alma Lasers, an international leader in the laser, light-based and radiofrequency aesthetic medical device systems industry.  As the leader of the Company’s patent committee, Shai has helped the company expand its patent and trademark portfolios. Shai has defended Alma in major IP litigations.  Previously, Shai was General Counsel of Dyson, Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of the global leader in floorcare consumer products, as well as for Dyson’s Canadian affiliate.  Shai was also a member of the senior leadership team and responsible for all legal aspects of the multi-billion dollar Product Repair Services Division of Sears Roebuck & Co., a nationwide provider of household services.  Shai’s first in-house position was as General Counsel for Ampal American Israel Corporation, an international, AMEX listed company. 

He began his career as a corporate associate for Kronish, Lieb, Weiner and Hellman LLP in New York City and Yigal Arnon in Tel Aviv.

Shai holds J.D. and B.A. degrees from Columbia University and is a member of the Illinois and New York bars.

Lesley Meade Hamming

Lesley Hamming is co-founder and program director for NanoBusiness Talent, a non-profit organization that immerses high school students into the entrepreneurial environment of nanotechnology companies.  In addition to bringing nanotechnology to high school students, Lesley is also active as a PhD candidate in materials science and engineering at Northwestern University.  She has won several awards as a graduate student including a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and the Presidential Fellowship, the most prestigious honor given by Northwestern University.  Her research was recognized with a first place ribbon at the Materials Research Society’s annual conference in San Francisco.  Lesley utilized her engineering and operations experience in private equity as an Associate at Burke America Private Holding Company.  She has also pursued her athletic passions.  As a member of the USA National team in triathlon, Lesley competed for the United States at several Pan-American Championships and World Championships.

Jason Hartlove

Jason Hartlove most recently was President of MagnaChip Semiconductor and was responsible for managing all business activities for the Imaging Solutions Division headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

Prior to joining MagnaChip, Jason worked at Agilent Technologies and its parent company Hewlett-Packard as a Vice President and General Manager for the Sensor Solutions Division. Working in collaboration with Hewlett-Packard Laboratories from 1996, Jason developed the first commercial implementations of optical position sensing used in optical mice and CMOS image sensor technologies for the company.

Author of more than 20 patents, including the winner of the Hewlett Award in 2004 for best patent in Agilent Technologies, Jason has also worked in a variety of manufacturing, R&D and marketing roles in semiconductor technologies including MEMS, III-V, bipolar, CMOS and BCD process technologies.

Jason received his BSEE from UCLA in Los Angeles, California and has completed graduate work at the Anderson School of Management.

Alan Hauser

With 20 plus years of multidisciplinary experience encompassing the technical, IP, market, and economic aspects of fostering innovation, Dr. Hauser is an accomplished commercialization leader as well as a Certified Licensing ProfessionalTM.  Since obtaining his doctorate in chemical engineering from the college of chemistry at U.C. Berkeley, Alan has completed the executive business program at the Kellogg Management Institute as well as additional finance/valuation courses at the University of Chicago and Harvard.  He has been building businesses for more than a decade based on disruptive technologies that are transforming the way research and medicine is practiced.  For example, his strategic roadmapping and in-licensing efforts have led to the commercialization of an FDA-cleared DNA detection system that is enabling emerging pharmacogenomics-driven diagnosis and treatments.  He built and managed a broad microfluidics patent portfolio for a venture-backed startup based in Silicon Valley that resulted in its $189 MM IPO.  Currently working in a commercial development capacity at Northwestern’s Technology Transfer Program, Dr. Hauser is helping facilitate the translation of NU innovations to the marketplace through new venture creation and licensing.

David Henderson

David draws on his extensive investment and business development experience to help portfolio companies achieve their strategic and financial goals.  His extensive international business dealings in Europe and Asia have helped XPV portfolio companies successfully completing valuable M&A transactions and strategic partnerships.  With his broad industry knowledge and networks he supports his companies through the complexities of building a successful global enterprise.
Before founding XPV Capital Corporation, David was one of the first employees of the private merchant bank Kinghaven Capital Corporation (now VRG Capital).  At Kinghaven, he led or was involved in over 20 fundraising, M&A, and direct investment transactions.  As the Vice President of Finance at GENSEL Biotechnologies, a Kinghaven Capital portfolio company, he helped the company raise multiple rounds of financings and enter into strategic partnerships with three leading multi-nationals.
David is an Advisor for the US Strategic Water Initiative and Imagine H2O, has been published in several leading water magazines, and is a frequent speaker on the topic of water investing.  He is a Director of Advancing Canadian Entrepreneurship and is a founding member of the National Angel Capital Organization.
David was educated at Ryerson University’s School of Business where he specialized in the Enterprise Development program, and was awarded the Ryerson Centre for Entrepreneurship Education & Research Award.

Dr. Dan Herr

Dr. Herr is Semiconductor Research Corporation’s Director of Nanomanufacturing Science Research.  He leads an international team that provides vision, guidance, and leveraged support for a number of the top collaborative interdisciplinary university research programs on emerging nanoelectronics related materials and assembly methods, environmentally benign high performance manufacturing, and enabling nano-characterization technology options.  He also is exploring emerging research opportunities in bioelectronics, ultra low power systems, and energy harvesting. He held senior engineering positions at Honeywell Corporation, during the VHSIC program, and Shipley Company, in Japan, where he helped bring up a new R&D facility.  He also founded Avatar R&D Corporation, a materials design consulting firm. 

Dr. Herr serves as Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at North Carolina State University, where he co-developed and co-teaches an interdisciplinary graduate level course on The Materials Science of Nanoelectronics.  Dr. Herr provides ongoing technical leadership for the Semiconductor Industry Association’s Technology Lithography, Metrology, and ESH Working Groups and is co-founder and co-chair of the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors [ITRS] International Technology Working Group on Emerging Research Materials.  He also Chairs the SPIE conference on Alternative Lithographic Technologies and serves as Senior Editor for IEEE Transactions in Nanotechnology, Associate Editor for the Journal of Nanoparticle Research, and Reviewer for JVST.

Dr. Herr’s technical accomplishments include a suite of product optimization software, more robust than Taguchi’s methodology, and foundational patents/disclosures, in areas such as: defect tolerant patterning, controlled nanotube synthesis and placement, deterministic semiconductor doping, and ultimate CMOS devices. More recently, he was elected to the grade of Fellow of the International Society for Optical Engineering for specific achievements in the design, development, and commercialization of two early families of chemically amplified resists and addressing critical patterning and control challenges in the deep nano-domain.  His publications cover topics from mechanistic chemistry to strategic industry trends in nanoelectronics. He has given over 90 invited presentations and seminars, nationally and internationally.

Mark Hersam

Mark C. Hersam is currently a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and a Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University. He earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 1996, M.Phil. in Physics from the University of Cambridge in 1997, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from UIUC in 2000.  In 1999, he also performed research at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Laboratory under the support of an IBM Distinguished Fellowship. His research interests include single molecule chemistry, nanofabrication, scanning probe microscopy, semiconductor surfaces, and carbon nanomaterials. As a faculty member, Dr. Hersam has received several awards including the Beckman Young Investigator Award (2001), NSF CAREER Award (2001), ARO Young Investigator Award (2005), ONR Young Investigator Award (2005), Sloan Research Fellowship (2005), Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2005), TMS Robert Lansing Hardy Award (2006), AVS Peter Mark Award (2006), and two Teacher of the Year Awards (2003, 2007). In recognition of his early career accomplishments, Dr. Hersam was directly promoted from assistant professor to full professor with tenure in 2006. In 2007, Dr. Hersam co-founded NanoIntegris, which is a start-up company focused on supplying high performance carbon nanomaterials.

Jeff Hrkach, Ph.D.

Prior to joining BIND Biosciences, Dr. Hrkach was Senior Director of Drug Delivery and Strategic Product Development at Momenta Pharmaceuticals, serving as program leader for the Drug Delivery and generic COPAXONE programs and as Alliance Manager for the Sandoz/Novartis collaboration. Prior to Momenta, Dr. Hrkach was Director of Pulmonary Formulations at Alkermes, focusing on the AIR large porous particle technology development programs. Dr. Hrkach joined AIR at its inception in 1998 following his postdoctoral research with Professor Robert Langer at MIT. Dr. Hrkach has over 25 scientific publications and 25 patents/applications in drug delivery and polymer chemistry. He received his Ph.D. in Chemistry and M.S. in Polymer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and his B.S. in Chemistry from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science.

Victor Hsia

Mr. Hsia is our Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing where he is spearheading the efforts leading to widespread adoption of the novel technologies and products that we have developed.  As an integral member of our management team he is chartered with the task of creating market awareness and customer acceptance.  Prior to joining Nanosys, he was Vice President, WW OEM Sales for NeoAccel, where he drove the OEM Sales for this next generation network security company.  Mr. Hsia has held executive level positions in a variety of Silicon Valley companies including SMaL Camera (CY), VLSI Vision Ltd. (STM), OmniVision, Cirrus Logic, S3 and Intel.  Mr. Hsia began his career at GE after attending UC Davis where he studied Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Edward Hughes

Edward is the CEO of Aculon, Inc an emerging nanotechnology company that invents and commercializes unique surface and interfacial treatments at the nanoscale. Aculon works in the optical, display, electronics, consumer and industrial markets.

Edward has over 15 years of experience managing consumer and technology businesses.  He is widely regarded in the Nanotechnology business community. 

Prior to Aculon he was the Founder, President & Chief Executive Officer of PowerMetal Technologies Inc. located in Carlsbad California; a leading supplier of nanotechnology enabled components. In 2003 Edward was Senior VP and GM for TaylorMade-adidas Golf, heading up the North American business division and Global Marketing. Edward was part of the team that turned around TaylorMade’s performance by growing sales and doubling profits. Prior to selling Maxfli Golf to TaylorMade adidas Golf Edward helped turn around Maxfli as Vice President & General Manager. Previous roles include Director of Strategy and Group Marketing Manager at The Pillsbury Company in Minneapolis.

Edward serves on the Boards of several San Diego based nonprofit organizations which include Harvard Business School Club and the San Diego Girls Scouts Organization. He earned his Masters Degree from Cambridge University, England and his MBA from the Harvard Business School, where he was a George F. Baker Scholar.

Jim Hussey

James M. Hussey joined NanoInk, as Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors, in January 2008. Mr. Hussey brings 25 years of experience in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry as executive, founder, investor and consultant to senior management and boards of directors. Prior to joining NanoInk, Mr. Hussey was with Ovation Pharmaceuticals, where he was a member of the senior operating committee, serving as Head of Alliances and Vice President of Corporate Development. He was President and CEO of NeoPharm, Inc., as well as a member of the Board of Directors and an investor/shareholder. In 1994, he founded Physicians Quality Care, a health care services IPA Management Company, which was sold to a public company in 1998. Prior to founding Physicians Quality Care, he was with Bristol Myers Squibb in Princeton, New Jersey, serving as General Manager as well as other positions in marketing, new business development and sales. Mr. Hussey holds a B.S. in Pharmacy from Butler University, Indianapolis, Indiana, and an M.B.A. from University of Illinois at Chicago.

Dr. Alicia Jackson

Dr. Alicia Jackson currently serves as Professional Staff on the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Dr. Jackson’s portfolio on the committee includes Smart Grid, Distributed Generation, Manufacturing and Industrial Competitiveness,
Federal Energy R&D and Advanced Energy Storage Technologies.
Dr. Jackson earned her Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2007, where her dissertation focused on fundamental studies of gold nanoparticles.  While at MIT, she co-created a science policy course for science and engineering graduate students—Science and Technology Policy Bootcamp—a course aimed at creating a new generation of policy-versed and active scientists. Dr. Jackson has also served as a Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellow at the National Academies of Science, where she worked for the Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy.  Most recently, before becoming Professional Staff, Dr. Jackson served one year as a AAAS Congressional Science Fellow.

Douglas Jamison

Mr. Jamison is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and a Managing Director of Harris & Harris Group, Inc., a publicly traded venture capital company listed on the Nasdaq Global Market (NASDAQ: TINY).  Harris & Harris Group focuses solely in making initial investments in “tiny” technologies, which it defines as nanotechnology and microsystems.

He has previously held the positions of President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Harris & Harris Group, Inc.  He is also currently Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Harris & Harris Enterprises, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Harris & Harris Group.  He is a member of the Board of Directors of Ancora Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and a Board observer in Mersana Therapeutics, Inc., Solazyme, Inc., Nextreme Thermal Solutions, Inc., and Metabolon, Inc., privately held nanotechnology-enabled portfolio companies of Harris & Harris Group.  He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of “Nanotechnology Law & Business.”  He is Co-Chair of the Advisory Board, Converging Technology Bar Association, a member of the University of Pennsylvania Nano-Bio Interface Ethics Advisory Board, and a member of the Advisory Board, Massachusetts Technology Collaborative Nanotechnology Venture Forum.  Prior to joining Harris & Harris Group, he was a Senior Technology Manager at the University of Utah Technology Transfer Office, where he managed intellectual property in physics, chemistry and the engineering sciences.  He is a graduate of Dartmouth College (B.A., 1992) and the University of Utah (M.S., 1999).

Jess Jankowski

Nanophase Technologies Corporation, a charter member of the NanoBusiness Alliance, is an FDA-regulated developer and manufacturer of advanced material solutions as well as the first, and one of the few, publicly traded pure-play nanomaterials companies.  Mr. Jankowski joined the Company in 1995 as Controller, helping to take Nanophase public in 1997.  He is the Company’s President and Chief Executive Officer, and a board director.  Mr. Jankowski has previously held the positions of Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Finance.  Prior to Nanophase, he served as Controller for two building contractors in the Chicago area for four years, during which time he had significant business development and governmental relations responsibilities.  Prior to that he worked for Kemper Financial Services for four years in various roles. 
Mr. Jankowski holds a B.S. in accountancy from Northern Illinois University and an M.B.A. from Loyola University of Chicago. In 2009, Mr. Jankowski was appointed to the board of directors of the Northern Illinois Technology Foundation, an economic development and technology transfer entity that is part of Northern Illinois University. He was also elected to the TechAmerica Midwest Board in 2008.  He was also appointed to the Romeoville Economic Development Commission, an organization focused on fostering local new business growth, where he has served since 2004. He has also served on the advisory board of NITECH, an Illinois Technology Enterprise Center focusing on the commercialization of advanced manufacturing technologies from 2003 to 2008.  He has served as a Board Trustee for the Joliet Montessori School, a mission-driven alternative school established in 1969 and located southwest of Chicago, since 2008.  Mr. Jankowski remains active in supporting Nanophase, and the Illinois nano- and high-tech communities in the State of Illinois and in Washington DC. 
As a responsible corporate citizen, Nanophase remains committed to best practices in corporate governance, having several former “Fortune 500” CEOs on its majority independent board of directors, and is proudly SOX-404 compliant.  Additionally, Nanophase’s facilities and processes were recertified in 2009 to ISO9001:2000, the internationally recognized standard of manufacturing and quality excellence, and ISO14001:2004, the international environmental management standard.  Nanophase operates all manufacturing facilities in compliance with State and Federal hazardous waste (RCCA), air emissions, and wastewater permits, while meeting or exceeding applicable OSHA, TSCA, and hazardous materials requirements.  In 2009, Nanophase employees reached a new safety record achieving over 1,000,000 continuous working hours without a lost time accident.

Michael Janse

Executive Vice President & Managing Director
Mr. Janse has served as an Executive Vice President and as a Managing Director since April 2007. From January 2007 to April 2007, he was a Principal at ARCH Venture Partners and was an Associate from June 2002 to January 2007, following earlier roles as an intern and then consultant. He concentrated on investment opportunities in advanced semiconductor products, nanotechnology, and novel materials. From 1995 to 2000, Mr. Janse worked in Motorola’s Semiconductor Products Sector as a process engineer, and later marketed semiconductor components to manufacturers of personal computers and networking products. He was graduated from The University of Chicago (M.B.A.), and from Brigham Young University (B.S. in Chemical Engineering).

Portfolio responsibilities: Adesto Technologies, BridgeLux, Cambrios Technology, Crystal IS, Innovalight, Laser Light Engines, Nanomix and Siluria.

Margaret Johns

Ms. Johns, Founder and Managing Director of BlueLake Partners, has over 20 years of experience in finance. From 1986 until 2000, Ms. Johns was a Managing Director at Needham & Company, an emerging growth investment bank, where she was co-head of the Boston Office and created and ran the Private Placement practice. While at Needham, Ms. Johns’ clients included: Ambit Design Systems, Photronics, Solectron, StorageTek, Verisity and Western Digital. Prior to Needham & Company, Ms. Johns was with Harrison Capital, a venture capital firm and wholly owned subsidiary of Texaco, and Sandia National Laboratories, where she was a Member of the Technical Staff.
Ms. Johns holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, an MS in Applied Mechanics from Stanford University and a BS in Material Sciences from the Columbia University School of Applied Science and Engineering.

Tom Kacandes

As Director of Operations, Tom Kacandes manages all staff and process in our Highland, NY plant outside of administrative. He is presently revamping facilities operations, managing the sale and disposition of equipment and installation of new film and PV lines as well as designing and managing building renovations. Tom was a principal in his own building science and renewable energy consultancy and Director of Business Development for the largest commercial property in Ulster County. As Vice-President of Business Development at Taylor Biomass Energy and Taylor Recycling he led the commercialization of advanced biomass gasification technology and industry leading debris recycling technology. As CEO of TKM Materials (recycled scrap drywall into material for new sheetrock), Tom conceived, organized, funded, operated and sold the E. US first scrap drywall recycling firm. Tom worked in economic development for 13 years and has a BA and MBA from the University at Albany.

Mark Kaczor

Mark Kaczor joined the staff of the University of Illinois in 1990 as the Radiation Protection Manager at the Nuclear Reactor Laboratory in the University’s Department of Nuclear Engineering. In 1995 he received a Senior Reactor Operator’s license (SRO) from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for the University’s Advanced TRIGA Nuclear Reactor, now decommissioned. Mark has been a Technology Manager with the OTM since 2000 and obtained the Certified Licensing Professional (CLP) designation from the Licensing Executives Society (LES) on July 1st 2008.
Prior to joining the professional staff at Illinois, Mark worked for 13 years in the commercial nuclear power industry as a Senior Radiation Protection Technician at over 15 different nuclear power plants across the United States. His last employment in commercial nuclear power was as a Radiation Protection Supervisor and Licensing Administrator at the Clinton Power Station in Clinton, Illinois.
Mark holds a Bachelor’s Degree, a Juris Doctorate, and is licensed to practice law in New York State.
Mark is a Senior Technology Manager with a focus on electronics, micro-nano manufacturing, materials science, and CleanTech. (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Neil Kane

Neil Kane is president and co-founder of Advanced Diamond Technologies, Inc. a firm he founded in 2003 by licensing technology from Argonne National Laboratory. Mr. Kane is the former Executive Director of the Illinois Technology Enterprise Center at Argonne and Entrepreneur in Residence with Illinois Ventures, LLC. As EIR with Illinois Ventures, Mr. Kane was interim CEO of several of their portfolio companies. He has closed several rounds of venture capital from various sources and has secured numerous SBIR and government contracts and awards.

Earlier he was Regional Business Development Manager for Microsoft Corporation in Chicago. In this role he identified, negotiated and closed a $25 million equity investment for Microsoft. He began his business career at IBM where he was the IBM liaison to Andersen Consulting (later Accenture) and helped create the strategic busi¬ness alliance between IBM and Andersen Consulting that became the model for the industry. In this capacity he earned membership into IBM’s Golden Circle. He be¬gan his IBM career as a manufacturing engineer in their San Jose, California disk drive facility where he designed robotic tooling.

He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (high honors) and a Masters of Business Administration from The University of Chicago. He has attended graduate school in Australia and did further graduate study in Japan on a scholarship from JETRO. He was named a 2007 Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum and attended their annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland in 2007 and 2008. In 2009 he was named a “Mover & Shaker” by Frost & Sullivan.

Annette Kolodzie

Annette Kolodzie is Strategic Programs Director for FEI Company.  FEI is a recognized leader in the development and manufacturing of the highly specialized and sophisticated tools needed to image, analyze, and understand materials at the nanoscale.  Dr. Kolodzie cultivates and manages collaborations between FEI and key researchers in the United States.  The objective of these partnerships is to develop the next generation electron microscopy and related instruments and techniques that enable scientists across a wide spectrum of disciplines to engage in the most advanced research in their fields.  She is FEI’s Project Manager of the Transmission Electron Aberration-Corrected Microscope (TEAM) Project, funded by the Department of Energy and participated in by four National Laboratories.  One of the goals the TEAM Project accomplished was building the highest resolution electron microscope in the world.  She is also Program Manager of a collaboration with the National Institutes of Health, focusing on development of state of the art electron microscope capabilities for biological applications.  Dr. Kolodzie is a member of FEI’s Energy Task Force, which equips experts to make discoveries about materials and processes at the nanoscale that will lead to solutions to many of the energy challenges facing us today.  Her technical expertise includes high resolution electron microscopy and electron energy loss analysis techniques.  Dr. Kolodzie holds Ph.D., J.D., B.S. and B.A. degrees and was a practicing attorney for a number of years before joining FEI.

Dr. Charles Kuehmann

Dr. Charles Kuehmann is President and CEO of QuesTek Innovations LLC.  Recognized internationally as a leader in the emerging field of computational materials design, QuesTek collaborates with governments and industry to create and license novel materials to enable new products, enhance current product performance or reduce manufacturing or processing costs.  Through use of QuesTek’s proprietary suite of computational tools, materials no longer need to be discovered—they can be designed.

Dr. Kuehmann received his BS in aerospace engineering from Arizona State University in 1988 and attended Northwestern University under an NSF Graduate Student Fellowship, earning his PhD in materials science and engineering in 1994.  He has held engineering positions at General Dynamics and Allied Signal Garret Turbine Engine Company, and founded a technical services firm in 1987.  He became a founding member of QuesTek Innovations LLC in 1996 and in 2001 was appointed President and CEO.  Dr. Kuehmann has applied computational material systems design techniques, pioneered by Northwestern’s Steel Research Group, to applications such as high-temperature ferrous superalloys, surface-hardening gear and bearing steels, ballistically tolerant armor steels, weldable high-strength plate steels, Ni-base superalloys and high performance Al alloys, holding a number of patents in these areas.

Kristen Kulinowski, Ph.D.

Dr. Kulinowski is a Faculty Fellow in the Department of Chemistry at Rice University, Executive Director for Policy for the Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology (CBEN) and the Director of the International Council on Nanotechnology (ICON). ICON is an international, multi-stakeholder organization whose mission is to develop and communicate information regarding potential environmental and health risks of nanotechnology thereby fostering risk reduction while maximizing societal benefit. She has experience as a chemical researcher, educator, curriculum developer, administrator, outreach coordinator and policy fellow.

Since 2004, Dr. Kulinowski has been actively engaged in developing and promoting the International Council on Nanotechnology (ICON) which provides a neutral forum in which experts from academia, governments, industry and nonprofit organizations can explore questions of nanotechnology’s impact on environment, health and safety (EHS). She directed an effort that resulted in the web publication of the first publicly available database of citations to peer-reviewed papers on nano EHS. Other activities of ICON include a survey of best practices for nanomaterial handling in the workplace, a public portal of information on nanotechnology EHS and the GoodNanoGuide, an interactive forum for sharing information about nanomaterial handling practices.

Dr. Kulinowski has extensive experience in science education, particularly in developing innovative curricula at the undergraduate level, and developed Rice’s first introductory undergraduate course on nanotechnology. From 2002-2004 Dr. Kulinowski served as CBEN Executive Director for Education, developing and managing an educational outreach portfolio of programs for audiences that range from middle school children to adults. During this time, the center established itself as a national leader in nanotechnology educational outreach.

Prior to joining CBEN, she was a lecturer in chemistry at Cal Poly (San Luis Obispo) for three years and came to Rice as an instructor in chemistry in 1998. In 2001 she was selected by the Optical Society of America and SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering as their Congressional Science Fellow and worked in the D.C. office of a member of the U.S. House of Representatives on issues including weapons of mass destruction, anti-terrorism legislation and domestic nuclear power security. She was instrumental in shepherding through new legislation on the stockpiling of potassium iodide near nuclear power plants. As a longtime volunteer with American Red Cross Disaster Relief Services, Dr. Kulinowski brought food and water to rescue workers at the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.

Dr. Kulinowski is highly sought after as a speaker and has given invited talks on issues of nanotechnology environmental health and safety and science policy throughout the US, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. She has consulted with governments and governmental advisory bodies regarding responsible nanotechnology, and serves as chair of the ASTM International Subcommittee E56.03 on Environment, Health and Safety. Dr. Kulinowski earned a B.S. in chemistry at Canisius College and her M.S. and Ph.D. in chemistry at the University of Rochester.

Amit Kumar

Though Dr. Kumar was technically trained, he has worked as a venture capitalist, a CEO in both a public company and start-up, as well as a technology entrepreneur.  Dr. Kumar has been President and CEO of CombiMatrix Corporation (NASDAQ:CBMX) since September 2001. He has been a Director since September 2000. Previously, Dr. Kumar was Vice President of Life Sciences of Acacia Research Corp. (NASDAQ: ACRI). From January 1999 to February 2000, Dr. Kumar was the founding President and Chief Executive Officer of Signature BioSciences, Inc., a life science company developing technology for advanced research in genomics, proteomics and drug discovery. From January 1998 to December 1999, Dr. Kumar was an Entrepreneur in Residence with Oak Investment Partners, a venture capital firm. From October 1996 to January 1998, Dr. Kumar was a Senior Manager at IDEXX Laboratories, Inc., a biotechnology company. From October 1993 to September 1996, Dr. Kumar was Head of Research & Development for Idetek Corporation, which was later acquired by Idexx Laboratories, Inc. Dr. Kumar received his bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Occidental College. After joint studies at Stanford University and the California Institute of Technology, he received his Ph.D. from Caltech in 1991. He also completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard University in 1993.

Dr. Kumar’s interest in nanotechnology started with his doctoral studies at Stanford University and the California Institute of Technology where he studied semiconductor solar cells. After completing his Ph.D. he served as a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University where, working with Professor George Whitesides, he was the co-inventor and author of several pioneering patents on a nanotechnology now known as Micro-Contact Printing and Soft Lithography. These patents have been licensed by Fortune 500 companies and younger public and private biotechnology firms. Since that time Dr. Kumar has worked as a scientist, a venture capitalist and company executive focused in the areas of miniaturization and nanotech. CombiMatrix is commercializing a semiconductor-based array technology that enables executing thousands of independent, chemical reactions in parallel in volumes of a few tenths of nanoliters. Commercial applications of this technology include highly parallel genetic analysis microarrays, materials synthesis, drug development, and biodefense detection systems. Dr. Kumar is a board member of the NanoBusiness Alliance and a member of the steering committee of the Washington Nanotechnology Initiative.

Griffith Kundahl

Griff is the Executive Chairman, Colorado Nanotechnology Alliance and is on the Advisory Board for DU’s Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering.  Griff was a founding member of the NanoBusiness Alliance, served as its General Counsel, and continues to serve as a member of its Board of Directors.  He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Colorado Nanotechnology Alliance and as Secretary on its Executive Board.

Griff is co-author of The Handbook of Nanotechnology Business, Policy and Intellectual Property Law (Wiley 2004) andserves as Associate Editor for the Nanotech Law & Business Journal.

Emily Landsburg

Joined BlackGold in 2003 as a member of the founding team. A keen entrepreneur, she established Philadelphia’s leading biodiesel distributorship, on track to exceed $10M in annual revenue in only its 3rd year. Here she honed expertise in bio/petro-diesel markets and with municipalities and utilities, her target customers. Emily successfully started and sold a business addressing sewage disposal in the marine industry and has been involved in several start-ups in energy and technology. A nationally recognized leader, she was appointed the first Chairman of the National Biodiesel Board’s Sustainability Task Force and is an international speaker. She graduated magna cum laude in Applied Math from Columbia University, is an Environmental Leadership Program Fellow, and was named an Emerging Connector by Leadership Philadelphia.

Michael Lefenfeld

Michael Lefenfeld, a serial inventor, founded SiGNa Chemistry in late 2005 based on a green process that stabilizes reactive metals. This technology enables companies to safely harness the legendary powers of reactive materials. As President and CEO of SiGNa, Mr. Lefenfeld is applying his science and materials expertise to drive the adoption of these advanced materials into the mainstream of chemical reactivity and hydrogen fuel markets. SiGNa has been awarded the 2008 Presidential Green Chemistry Award along with the World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneer Award.  Prior to SiGNa, Mr. Lefenfeld independently commercialized several biomedical and chemical technologies.
Additionally, he has been employed as a Member of the Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories and a researcher at DuPont. In addition to over 20 scientific publications, he holds several patents and patent applications in areas ranging from controlled release to organic electronics to chemical reactivity. In 2005, Mr. Lefenfeld was featured on the cover of Red Herring as Top Researcher, and was named one of ICIS’s Top 40 Chemical Power Players to Watch, BusinessWeek’s Top Entrepreneurs Under 25, Red Herring’s Top 25 Entrepreneurs Under 35, and Inc. Magazine’s Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30. Mr. Lefenfeld earned his B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Physics at Washington University in St. Louis and a S.M. and M.Phil. in Chemistry at Columbia University.

Tom Levesque

Tom Levesque received Bachelors and Masters of Science degrees from Northeastern University in Boston, MA and has over 25 years experience in sales and marketing capital equipment to the technology industry.  Before NanoInk he served at senior levels of sales and marketing management at Ascend Instruments, FOSS NIRSystems, WYKO and held other management positions at Kulicke & Soffa Industries and Fisons Instruments, all the time specializing in providing innovative solutions to the Analytical Instruments and Semiconductor Sectors both in North America and internationally.  He has consistently been involved in developing new markets where technology and business combine.

Originally trained as an electron microscopist, he has been looking a small things since before nano was “cool”.  For the past 4 years at NanoInk he has been looking at the applications where Dip Pen Nanolithography (DPN) enables new and unique ways to manipulate matter at the nanoscale. The extreme versatility of the DPN technique, while one of its greatest strengths, makes the focused marketing very difficult.  With over 60 customers around the world, the second generation of DPN tools is now bringing the capabilities to new groups of both scientists and technologists who want to manufacture devices and materials which exploit features of the nano world.

Victor Lifton, Ph.D.

Victor A. Lifton received the MS degree from Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys, Moscow, Russia, in 1993 and Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, in 1999. 

From 1999 to 2004 he has held various R&D position in semiconductor processing and MEMS fabrication at Measurement Specialties, Inc., Kulite Semiconductor Products and Bell Laboratories.  While at Bell Laboratories his research focused on fabrication and testing of optical MEMS devices such as first all-optical cross-connect LambdaRouter. 

In 2004, he joined mPhase Technologies as a Senior Member of Technical Staff and in 2006 became Chief Scientist.  His current job responsibilities include basic and applied R&D activities in company’s efforts in nanotechnology and commercialization of nanotechnology-based products such as reserve micro-battery.  Professional interests include MEMS and nanofabrication methods, materials science and solid state physics.

Jeff Lints

With experience in start-up, high growth, and Fortune 100 companies, Jeff Lints offers new business development expertise at ALD NanoSolutions.  His career incorporates new ventures, operations, sales, and marketing across a range of industries, providing a broad set of abilities to support the company’s growth.  Jeff held management positions at Emerson, Avaya, and Rogers Corporation before turning his attention to emerging companies.  Prior to joining ALD NanoSolutions he lead new venture activities and acquisition analysis at Rogers Corporation.  Jeff received an MBA from Cornell University, a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from Clarkson University.

Michael LoCascio

Michael LoCascio is a Senior Analyst at Lux Research, and leads the Lux Water Intelligence service. He brings over ten years of corporate R&D and entrepreneurial start-up experience in the defense and advanced materials industries.
Prior to joining Lux Research, Michael spent eight years as the CTO of Evident Technologies, a leading nanomaterials application development company. He has overseen the development and launch of over two dozen products in fields as diverse as life-sciences, optoelectronics, and anti-counterfeiting technologies, and has been awarded with over twenty patents and patents pending. Michael has also managed over a dozen projects in conjunction with leading national labs, academic institutions, and Fortune 500 companies in the areas of solar cells, thermoelectrics, nonlinear optical devices, and printed electronics. Michael spent two years as a research engineer at Lockheed Martin where he conducted research on advanced optical filter and thermophotovoltaic technology.
Michael holds a B.E. degree in Engineering Physics and a Master Degree in electrical engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology. His graduate work focused on the development of novel ion beam sources used to deposit semiconductor thin film layers.

Steve Maebius

Stephen B. Maebius is an IP partner with Foley & Lardner LLP. He is a member of the firm’s Management Committee and co-chair of the Life Sciences Industry Team. He is also a member of the Biotechnology & Pharmaceutical Practice and the Nanotechnology Industry Team. Prior to becoming a lawyer, he was a patent examiner in the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office in the Biotechnology Group. He specializes in complex patent prosecution matters, including reexaminations, petitions, appeals, patent term extensions, and interferences, IP diligence reviews, global patent portfolio management, patent licensing, and patent litigation.
Mr. Maebius has been active as both a teacher and author in the intellectual property field. He has been a visiting associate professor of intellectual property law at Tokyo University’s Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, as well as a faculty adjunct professor at George Washington University Law School, where he taught comparative and international patent law. Mr. Maebius regularly operates in Japan, working with the firm’s Tokyo office. In addition, he testified at the 2002 FTC/DOJ hearings on the “Implications of Competition and Patent Law and Policy.”
In the area of nanotechnology, Mr. Maebius helped start the NanoBusiness Alliance and the Nanotechnology Law & Business journal. He continues to serve on the advisory board of the NanoBusiness Alliance, and he is an editor-in-chief of the Nanotechnology Law & Business journal.
Mr. Maebius graduated from Cornell University (B.S. biology, 1989); and the George Washington University Law School (J.D., 1994). He is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia, the state of Virginia, before the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the U.S. Supreme Court, and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Mr. Maebius has also been selected by his peers for inclusion in the 2007 and 2008 editions of The Best Lawyers in America ® in the area of Biotechnology law and was runner-up in the Washington Business Journal’s 2006 Top Washington Lawyers for Intellectual Property. He also serves as a board member of the CARES Foundation.
Representative Matters:
Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. V. Hon. Jon W. Dudas (D.D.C. 2007) - obtained summary judgment in client’s favor reversing double patenting rejection arising from patent reexamination
Goldenberg & Immunomedics v. Cytogen & C.R. Bard (Fed. Cir. 2004) - obtained reversal of summary judgment in client’s favor in split 2-1 decision
Reexamination of 2 patents covering drug with $1.5B in sales per year - obtained decision upholding patentability of all claims
Licensing of biotechnology drug with up-front payment of $100M - represented acquiring company in IP diligence and drafting agreements
Sample Publications:
“Bayer Highlights Debate on Research Method Use (Patent Won’t Cover Fruit of Offshore Research Not Made with the Method)” (Natl. Law Journal, 2001)
“Extending Process Claims From Intermediate to Final Product: Avoiding the Trap of Eli Lilly v. American Cyanamid” (Journal of the Patent & Trademark Office Society, 1998)
“Novel DNA Sequences and the Utility Requirement: The Human Genome Initiative” (Journal of the Patent & Trademark Office Society, 1992)
“The New Use of Fair Use: Accessing Copyrighted Programs Through Reverse Engineering” (Journal of the Patent & Trademark Office Society, 1993)

James Malackowski

James E. Malackowski is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Ocean Tomo, LLC, an integrated Intellectual Capital Merchant Banc® firm providing financial products and services related to Intellectual Property (IP) expert services, research, investments, risk management and transactions. Ocean Tomo assists clients – corporations, law firms, governments and institutional investors – in realizing Intellectual Capital Equity® value broadly defined. Ocean Tomo is the founder and majority owner of the Intellectual Property Exchange International, LLC.

Mr. Malackowski is a member of the IP Hall of Fame Academy and was recognized in 2007 by Managing Intellectual Property magazine as one of the fifty most influential people in intellectual property. In 2008, Mr. Malackowski was again named as one of the Top 50 IP professionals under the age of 45 in IP Law & Business as well as one of the ‘World’s 250 Leading IP Strategists’ by IAM Magazine.  for 2009 by IAM Magazine. Prior to forming Ocean Tomo, he served as a finance and investment advisor working with one of the Nation’s oldest investment banks as well as one of Chicago’s largest private equity firms.  Mr. Malackowski began his career spending fifteen years as a management consultant and forensic accountant focused on intangible assets.  In this capacity Mr. Malackowski served numerous roles as a founding principal including President and Chief Executive Officer of his firm, growing the practice to the nation’s largest before its sale.

Mr. Malackowski has advised clients and counsel on business valuation issues as well as all phases of the technology transfer process.  His expertise extends to intangible asset portfolios as well as business segments and complete entities.  He has substantial experience as a Board Director for leading technology corporations as well as companies with critical brand management issues.  Apart from his own firm, Mr. Malackowski has served in a leadership role with numerous corporate and non-for-profit entities.  He is Secretary for The Licensing Executives Society International, Inc. and Past President of The Licensing Executives Society USA and Canada, Inc. Today, Mr. Malackowski focuses his non-for-profit efforts with those organizations leveraging science and innovation for the benefit of children.  He is a Director of Children’s Memorial Research Center, an affiliate of Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago, as well as a member of the President’s Council for the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry.  Since 2002, Mr. Malackowski has been a Trustee or Director of Invent Now, Inc., an organization providing summer enrichment programs for more than 50,000 students annually.

Mr. Malackowski is a frequent speaker on emerging technology markets and related financial measures.  He has addressed mass media audiences including Bloomberg Morning Call, Bloomberg Evening Market Pulse, Bloomberg Final Word, CNBC Closing Bell, CNBC On the Money, CBS News Radio and Fox Business National Television.  Mr. Malackowski has also appeared as a judge on PBN’s Everyday Edisons.

On more than thirty occasions, Mr. Malackowski has served as an expert in Federal Court or the International Trade Commission on questions relating to intellectual property economics, including the subject of business valuation and the impact of advertising programs.  As an inventor, Mr. Malackowski has ten issued U.S. patents and an even larger number of pending applications.  He is an Adjunct Instructor at the University of Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business where he was a Summa Cum Laude graduate majoring in accountancy and philosophy.  Mr. Malackowski is Certified in Financial Forensics, a Certified Licensing Professional and a Registered Certified Public Accountant in the State of Illinois.

Ajay Malshe, Ph.D.

Ajay P. Malshe (Ph.D., 1992; FInstP) is the Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of NanoMech LLC (http://www.nanomech.biz). NanoMech LLC is a nanotechnology innovations platform company with major current nanomanufacturing and product foci in four application sectors. These sectors are Machining (ex. TuffTek®) and Lubrication (NanoGlideTM), Sustainable Retail Packaging (Guard-In-FreshTM), Biomedical and Defense. NanoMech is creating world class innovations and innovations based hi-tech job opportunities in Arkansas and US, at large. He has received twenty awards for research, education and service achievements (1996-2006). The most recent prestigious recognitions, Frost & Sullivan 2005 Technology Excellence Award and 2006 Top 25 Micro and Nano Innovations from R&D Magazine and Micro/Nano Newsletter are due to his team’s innovative contributions in the area of cBN-TiN nanocomposite coating and other related products. He is a Fellow of Institute of Physics, London, UK and is listed in Lexinton’s Who’s Who.
He is also 21st Century Endowed Chair Professor of Materials, Manufacturing Processes and Integrated Systems at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and adjunct-faculty of Electrical Engineering as well as Microelectronics and Photonics Program at the University of Arkansas. He is the Director of the Materials and Manufacturing Research Laboratories (MMRL; a cluster of 5 laboratories). Malshe has multidisciplinary research programs in the fields of nanomanufacturing, IC, MEMS and micro and nano device packaging and integration, and surface engineering for advanced machining. He has authored over one hundred and thirty five peer reviewed publications, four book chapters, and holds seven patents. He has graduated over thirty graduate students (PhD/MS), trained numerous post-doctoral fellows, and provided research experience to several undergraduate and high school students.
His landmark scientific and engineering contributions are nano-particle composite coatings particularly cubic boron nitride - titanium nitride composite coating (cBN-TiN), laser processing of dies and molds, nano electro machining (electric pen lithography- EPL; nanoEM), wafer level chip scale packaging of MEMS and related microsystems, nano stamping of quantum structures, nano-mechanical machining system-on-a-chip, chemo-mechanical as well as laser polishing of diamond films, femtosecond laser for chemically clean nano and micro machining of difficult-to-machine materials. He has an extensive track record of global collaborations with academic institutions and companies. He is a member of professional societies such as ASME, SME, IEEE, MRS, ASEE and IMAPS, and has arranged and chaired sessions and symposia in the areas of his expertise.

Derrick Mancini

Derrick C. Mancini is the Project Manager and acting Deputy Director for the Center for Nanoscale Materials at Argonne National Laboratory, and also currently leads the Nanopatterning Group there. He is the co-author of over 130 publications, with his research focused on advanced lithography, nanofabrication, beam-induced chemistry, x-ray microcharacterization, and synchrotron radiation instrumentation. He received his B.A. in history and B.S. in engineering physics from Cornell University, M.S. degrees in physics and materials science from University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Ph.D. in physics from Uppsala University in Sweden. He is also an adjunct Asst. Professor in Electrical Engineering at University of Illinois Chicago and Research Professor in Physics at Illinois Institute of Technology.

Tripat Mangat

Tripat spent 25 years leading multi-disciplinary teams to create environmentally appropriate and context sensitive solutions for the built environment in the US, Britain and Africa. As prime consultant on prestigious, internationally bid design projects for water resource management, housing and industrial development, he has engineered water and urban infrastructure projects that serve over three million people. These range from ultra low energy water supply systems, treatment plants and environment conservation systems, to communities with low environmental footprints. Practicing in California for the past 7 years he has worked with Silicon Valley cities and Bay Area developers to build adaptive re-use, transport oriented, multi-use projects and urban infrastructure.

In all this work, the triple bottom line of financial viability, environmental sustainability and context sensitive design is a guiding principle and an evident signature. These projects have been executed through funds provided by the World Bank, German Aid Bank (KfW), the African Development Bank, Sovereign governments and private enterprise. The aggregated value of work successfully designed, procured and executed to date through direct responsibility is over US$ 200 million.

Elsie Mann

Water industry decision makers rely on Optimatics’ technologies to optimize the planning of their water and wastewater networks, from daily operations to 50-year master plans. Founded in 1996, Optimatics has completed over 200 optimization projects with more than 60 water and wastewater utilities and irrigation authorities around the world. Since joining Optimatics in 2004, Elsie has worked on numerous projects, applying optimization to water system problems in the Australia, New Zealand, the UK, the US, and Canada. Elsie relocated to Chicago in 2007 where she now works with Optimatics in their North American head-quarters.

William J. (Jeff) Marshall

William J. (Jeff) Marshall was appointed Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Green Earth Technologies (GETG) by the Board of Directors on February 3, 2008.  Mr. Marshall has worked with high growth technology companies for over 30 years.  His experience ranges from working with leading technology companies in marketing, brand development, financings, and technology development.  From 2006 to 2008, Mr. Marshall served as Managing Partner of CRT Private Equity, the private equity investment arm of CRT Capital Group which absorbed RockRidge Capital Partners in 2006 which Mr. Marshall was Co-Founder & Senior Managing Partner from 2002 to 2006.  Prior to CRT Private Equity, from 1996 to 2002 Mr. Marshall was the Senior Managing Partner at VantagePoint Venture Partners with over $3.5 billion under management and four technology investment funds.  Prior to VantagePoint, Mr. Marshall spent 11 years at Bear Stearns Co., directing the company’s technology strategies, as Senior Managing Director, Chief Technology Officer and Head of the Communications Technologies Group (CTG).  He also worked with the Corporate Finance and Technology Group while at Bear Stearns on IPOs, M&A, and Strategic Advisory business with clients in the technology arena.  A few of the notable companies he has worked with include MCI, Bear Stearns, VantagePoint Venture Partners, CBeyond, QuantumClean, Insoft, Netscape, Network Equipment Technologies, Qtera, Sonoma Systems, Foundry Networks, Remedy, Synoptics, Wellfleet and over 100 more. He also initiated the Nortel acquisition of Bay Networks for $7 Billion. Prior to Bear Stearns, Mr. Marshall spent 10 years at MCI Communications, Inc. during its initial high growth years in the late 70s where the company doubled revenues year over year to over $4.5 billion in revenues by 1986. He has served on both public and private Boards over the last 25 years. Mr. Marshall was a member of the board of directors of the Securities Industry Association Technology Committee from 1989 to 2005.  He is a graduate of New York University in Finance and Computer Applications and Information Systems (B.S.), and the Harvard Management Program in Strategic Technology and Business Development.

Jim Mason

Jim D. Mason is the Vice President for Technology Initiatives for the State Chamber of Commerce of Oklahoma.  He was a founding member of the Oklahoma Nanotechnology Initiative (ONI) in 2003 and since 2005 has served as the Executive Director of the ONI, through a contract with the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology (OCAST), a state agency.

He coordinates the annual NanoFocus Conference and the quarterly “Speaking of Nano” series for the state-wide nano initiative.  The ONI is charged with serving as the clearinghouse of information on nanotechnology for the academic, business, industrial, and financial communities in Oklahoma by the Oklahoma legislature.  He developed and maintains the ONI website http://www.oknano.com.

For the State Chamber, Jim serves as an advocate and lobbyist for technology issues at the Oklahoma legislature.  Jim drafted the language for the nation’s first stare incentive program to assist Oklahoma companies in creating new or improved products with nanotechnology processes, which was signed into law in 2006 and is known as the Oklahoma Nanotechnology Applications Program ONAP. 

He also coordinates the State Chamber’s statewide Technology Council which meets quarterly and its website is http://www.oktechcouncil.com.

Jim received two bachelors’ degrees from Panhandle State University, a Masters Degree from Oklahoma State University, and has completed most oaf his coursework toward a doctorate at OSU.  He has also completed additional advanced education from Oklahoma State University, The University of Colorado, The University of Oklahoma, and Southern Methodist University.

He is a 28 year Chamber Management professional, having served as Chamber CEO/President in Cushing, Chickasha, and Stillwater.  He is certified as an Economic Developer, as an Economic Development Finance Professional and as a teacher and an educational psychologist.  He has been honored as Economic Development Professional of the Year and as Chamber Executive of the Year by his peers.

Jim and his wife of 39 years have two married daughters and one granddaughter and reside in rural Logan county.

Kevin McGovern

Mr. McGovern is the Chairman and CEO of McGovern Capital LLC, which provides Intellectual Property Rights Strategy, and originates, structures and implements capital formation, joint ventures and business alliances. Mr. McGovern has served on the Board of Directors of The Sports Authority and Nobel Education/NYSE.  He is a founder/key shareholder in over twenty companies, six of which are the worldwide/category leaders in their respective industry’s product categories. Currently, Mr. McGovern serves as the Chairman of The Water Initiative, LLC (“TWI”), which creates global point-of-use purification systems to safeguard the “last mile of water”. TWI is dedicated to building trusted solutions to satisfy the world’s thirst for clean drinking water through local (BoP) partnerships. It has facilities and offices in New York, Boston/Cambridge, Mexico, and Singapore. Mr. McGovern has been appointed to serve on the Executive Council for the Cornell Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise at the Cornell Johnson Business School and also teaches a course at the Johnson Graduate School of Business at Cornell, entitled Global Innovation and Commercialization.

Kimberly McGrath, Ph.D.

Dr. McGrath has over ten years experience in renewable energy technologies, with emphasis on the design of catalytic materials for fuel cells, batteries, electrolyzers, and other electrochemical systems. Prior to joining QuantumSphere, Dr. McGrath worked with the University of Southern California and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to develop and characterize robust new membranes for portable direct methanol fuel cells. In addition, she worked to develop new catalyst systems to improve the air-breathing fuel cell electrode, and in 2004 was invited by the Journal of Industrial & Engineering Chemistry to write an extensive treatise on Direct Methanol Fuel Cells with renowned fluorine chemist G.K. Surya Prakash and Nobel Laureate George A. Olah.

Over the past few years, Dr. McGrath’s research at QSI has focused on improving the capacity of Li-ion batteries and the power density of portable fuel cells using non-noble metal high surface area catalysts, and studying emerging markets for many clean technologies.  Dr. McGrath received her B.S. in Chemistry from the University of California, Santa Cruz, a Ph.D. in Chemistry from University of Southern California, and is currently completing an Executive MBA program at University of California, Irvine. She is an active member of the Electrochemical Society, Fuels Division of the American Chemical Society, and is also engaged in R&D strategy related to valuation, introduction and adoption of emerging technologies.

William Moffitt

William Moffitt became President, Chief Executive Officer and a director of Nanosphere, Inc. in July 2004.  Nanosphere (NSPH) is developing and commercializing a nanotechnology-based molecular diagnostics platform for earlier detection of disease and economical decentralization of complex genetic testing.  Mr. Moffitt has 35 years of experience in the diagnostics and medical device industry, and has spent the last 20 years developing novel technologies into products and solutions that have helped shape the industry. 

Prior to joining Nanosphere, he served as president and CEO of i-STAT Corporation, a developer, manufacturer and marketer of diagnostic products that pioneered the point-of-care blood analysis market.  Mr. Moffitt led i-STAT from its early research stage to commercialization and through its initial public offering in 1992 to its acquisition by Abbott Laboratories in 2003.  Prior to i-STAT, Mr. Moffitt held increasingly responsible executive positions from 1973 through 1989 with Baxter Healthcare Corporation, a manufacturer and distributor of health care products, and American Hospital Supply Corporation, a diversified manufacturer and distributor of health care products, which Baxter acquired in 1985.

Mr. Moffitt is also on the boards of three private companies and is a director and member of the executive committee of the Illinois Biotechnology Association (“iBIO”) where he also serves as an entrepreneurial coach for start-up companies. 

He earned a B.S. in Zoology from Duke University.

Jeff Mosher

Jeff Mosher serves as Executive Director of the National Water Research Institute located in Fountain Valley, CA, a non-profit research organization with water and wastewater agency members.  He is responsible for advancing NWRI’s mission of creating new sources of water through research and technology while protecting public health and improving the environment.  Mr. Mosher manages NWRI’s research and education programs and related activities, which have included advances in water reuse, desalination, innovative technologies, and water policy.  Prior to joining NWRI, Mr. Mosher worked for the WateReuse Foundation and the Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies.  He has 10 years of experience as an environmental consultant to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in the areas of water quality, regulation, and policy.  He has a B.S. in Chemistry from the College of William and Mary and a M.S. in Environmental Engineering from the George Washington University.

Jim Mundell

Jim Mundell is Senior Vice President & General Manager of Nextreme, Inc. He has 27 years of senior executive experience with P & L experience in semiconductor, microelectronics, medical devices and electronic systems manufacturing serving the computer, medical, military, and commercial markets. Jim has held executive positions such as COO, VP GM, and VP of International Operations with GE, Harris, CTS, SCI Systems, and various early stage technology companies such as CBA, Volumetrics Medical Imaging, and Trivirix International. Jim received his MS in Industrial Administration (MBA) from Purdue University’s Krannert School of Management and his BS in Electrical Engineering Technology from Purdue University.

Dr. Larry Nagahara

Dr. Nagahara is a Nanotechnology Project Manager for the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer, where he oversees and develops promising diagnostics and therapeutics projects and turns them into applications that will eventually benefit cancer patients.

Dr. Nagahara has been actively involved in nanotechnology for over 15 years, most notably novel scanning probe microscopy development, carbon nanotube applications, molecular electronics, nanoenergy, and nanosensors. Prior to joining NCI, he was a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at Motorola and led the nanosensor effort. He was a member of Motorola’s Scientific Advisory Board (comprising the top 1.5% of Motorola’s technologists), an advisory member of U.S. Army Materiel Command Nanotechnology Executive Roundtable, and an industrial liaison for NSF-NIRT projects, and Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) projects. He is currently an adjunct professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Arizona State University. Dr. Nagahara has published over 80 technical papers, 3 book chapters, and 1 book pending as well as over 15 patents issued/filed in the field of nanotechnology.

Larry Nagahara received his B.S. degree in physics from the University of California, Davis, and a Ph.D. in physics from Arizona State University. He was a post-doctorate fellow at the University of Tokyo, Japan and later joined the Faculty of Engineering as an assistant professor. In 1994, Dr. Nagahara joined Motorola and spent three years at the Joint Research Center for Atom Technology in Tsukuba, Japan, before relocating to Motorola Labs in Arizona.

Michael Nelson

As the Senior Vice President, Engineering at NanoInk, Mr. Nelson directs the science and engineering teams that develop hardware and software systems used for nanofabrication.  In addition to new product design and development, he also manages several of the operational aspects of NanoInk’s business including manufacturing and information technology.  Prior to joining NanoInk, Mr. Nelson served as the Senior Vice President, Engineering at Molecular Diagnostics, Inc.  At Molecular Diagnostics, Mr. Nelson directed the design and development of in-vitro diagnostic screening systems to assist in the early detection of cancer.  Other previous assignments include Vice President, Systems Development for AccuMed International, Inc., Director of Technology for Caremark, Director of Systems Engineering for Baxter International and Director of Engineering for the Perkin-Elmer Corporation. He earned his MS in Computer Science and MBA degrees from DePaul University in Chicago.

Finn Nielson

Finn Nielsen is Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors for Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies (VWS) and Chairman of the Board of Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies North America.

Mr. Nielsen was CEO and President of Kruger Inc., now a Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies company, from 1989 to 2000. He then moved to Denmark and was CEO and President of Kruger A/S with responsibility for Spain and the Nordic countries. In 2003 he became Executive Vice President for Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies responsible for the UK, Poland and the Nordic countries, and returned to the US in 2004 where he was CEO and President responsible for the Americas and Australia. Since January 2008, he has been on special project for the CEO of Veolia Water and the CEO of Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies.

Prior to 1989, Mr. Nielsen held various engineering, sales and management positions in Denmark and Europe for Kruger A/S and was Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Volund USA.

Mr. Nielsen is a native of Denmark and a graduate of the Danish engineering college, Odense Teknikum.

Paul O’Callaghan

Paul is CEO of O2 Environmental Inc., a Director with Ionic Water Technologies, and an industry expert reviewer for both Sustainable Development Canada and the Innovative Clean Energy Fund.
Paul recently completed a cutting edge analysis of BlueTech investment opportunities in the water sector for Global Water Intelligence, “Water Technology Markets – key opportunities and emerging trends’.  Paul provided a critical analysis of the game changing technologies currently undergoing commercialisation. Paul is currently tracking game changing technologies based on analysis of how issues such as the water-energy nexus, water scarcity & resource depletion are changing how water is managed and creating opportunties for a smarter, more efficient water system.
Paul has worked with technology start-ups including Ostara Nutrient Recovery Technologies, Microsludge, MicroDynamics UV and Aquacritox to take technologies from proof of concept through to commercialization.  Paul’s comprehensive technical and market expertise gained in both Europe and North America provides a unique international perspective on the emerging technology opportunities.
Paul has carried out work to identify investment opportunities for funds such as the Renaissance Fund, Frog Capital & the Four Winds Aqua Fund. He has also carried out work for large water PLC’s to help identify opportunities for acquisition and internal technology development.
Paul has been an invited speaker at water technology events such as the Blue, Green & Gold and the Saudi Water & Power Forum. Paul holds a Masters Degree in Water Resource Management and lectures on sustainable energy at the BC Institute of Technology and was a technical expert for the Artemis Project ‘Water Top 50’. Paul is a regular contributing writer for Green Options Media sites Ecopreneurist and Cleantechnica.

Mil Ovan

Mil Ovan is a senior executive with more than 20 years of experience focused on introducing innovative high technology products and services and creating new market categories.  Mil has built and run start-up companies, and has created new divisions at Fortune 500 companies. 

Mil is currently co-founder and Senior Vice President of Firefly Energy, a Peoria, Illinois-based company which has developed a next generation battery technology that has the opportunity to address major portions of the $30 billion worldwide battery marketplace. Firefly’s MicrocellTM foam-based battery technology can deliver a unique combination of high performance, extremely low weight and low cost, all in a battery which utilizes the best aspects of lead acid chemistry while overcoming the corrosive drawbacks of this same chemistry. The company was formed in 2003 after its technology, technical founder, and initial seed funds were spun out of Caterpillar, Inc. 

Prior to Firefly, Mil served as President and Co-founder of Verascape, a $10 million start-up providing voice recognition infrastructure to major enterprises and carriers. Prior to Verascape, Mil was Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for WarpSpeed Communications, a $30 million Bay Area start-up funded by AT&T, 3COM, and New Enterprise Associates, providing broadband-on-demand Wide Area Network services.  Before joining WarpSpeed, Mil spent 12 years at Motorola, where he was at the forefront in the creation and/or advancement of new communications categories such as Cellular Telephones and Systems, Wireless Local Area Networks and Wireless PDAs.  Just prior to leaving Morotola, he was the co-founder and executive director of the Wireless Broadband Systems division.

Mil received a Masters of Business Administration in Marketing from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management.  He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in International Business from Elmhurst College. A business innovator and pioneer, Mil is active in High Tech, education, civic and industry organizations, is a noted speaker on high technology issues at major industry conferences, as well as a quoted expert in high tech marketing in such media as Fortune Magazine and the Wall Street Journal.  He is past President of Elmhurst College’s National Alumni Association, and is the 2007 winner of the College’s Alumni Merit Award.

J. Donald Payne

Mr. J. Donald Payne has served as a director of the Company since December 30, 2003.  Since September 2001, Mr. Payne has served as President and a Director of Nanospectra Biosciences, Inc., an early-stage, privately-held medical device company developing products for cancer, ophthalmology, and bio-defense diagnostics. Prior to that, Mr. Payne held various executive positions in finance and administration of public and private life science companies since 1992, served as a financial executive in the energy industry from 1980 through 1990, and was in public accounting from 1976 to 1980.  Mr. Payne received an MBA from Rice University in 1992 and a BBA from Texas A&M University in 1976. He is a Certified Public Accountant in Texas, and a member of the AICPA and Financial Executives Institute.

Tamin Pechet

Tamin is a Principal at Catamount Ventures, where he invests in and helps build high-growth companies, with a particular focus on water, energy, and environment sectors. Tamin serves on the Board of Directors of Lux Research, and advises several startups and non-profits.  He also currently serves as Chairman & Executive Director of Imagine H2O (http://www.imagineh2o.org), a not-for-profit company that catalyzes water entrepreneurship with a business plan prize and incubator program.

Before joining Catamount, Tamin was a principal investor at Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he co-founded and managed Goldman Sachs E&P Capital to invest in private energy companies, and served on the founding team of the Goldman Sachs Specialty Lending Group. Prior to Goldman Sachs, Tamin held a business development position with Launch Media through its acquisition by Yahoo! Tamin holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and an AB with honors from Harvard University.

Amir Penn

Mr. Penn’s background is electrical engineering, including graduate studies in the field of semiconductor devices and processing. He has had substantial experience in procuring IP rights in the fields of semiconductors, nanotechnology, software related technology, medical devices and telecommunications. He is responsible for development of patent portfolios including preparation, prosecution and supervision of patent applications from filing to issuance.

Joe Piche

Joe has had an outstanding career in technology development, with more than 20 years experience developing high performance materials at Arthur D. Little, Foster Miller, and Aspen Systems.
Capitalizing on his strong entrepreneurial drive, Joe founded Eikos in 1996 to leverage his broad experience in the advanced materials industry. Eikos develops unique carbon nanotube formulations and coating methods of these formulations into highly differentiated products for the commercial displays market and for a wide range of military applications.
Joe recently received the prestigious Richard T. Whitcomb Aerospace Technology Transfer award from NASA. He has a BS in Chemistry from WPI.

Dr. Barrett Rabinow, Ph.D.

Dr. Rabinow is Baxter Distinguished Scientist, Medication Delivery, at Baxter Healthcare Corporation. He received his A.B. in Liberal Arts from Cornell University in 1968 and a Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1974 from the University of Chicago. From 1975-1976, he completed postdoctoral fellowships in electrochemistry, and in clinical chemistry at Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago. From 1976-1977, he served as Director, Clinical Chemistry Laboratory, Norwegian-American Hospital in Chicago. He then joined Baxter Healthcare Corporation in 1977, where he has been since. His positions of increasing responsibility led to the position of Director, Chemistry, where he oversaw chemistry, particle science, material science, polymer technology, and manufacturing troubleshooting for the parenterals solutions business.  He has authored over 40 articles, in the areas of physical-organic chemistry, clinical and analytical chemistry, biomaterials, packaging, pharmaceutical science, drug delivery, and animal modeling.

Leon Radomsky

Leon Radomsky is a partner and chair of the Nanotechnology Industry Team of Foley & Lardner LLP. He is a member of the firm’s Chemical & Pharmaceutical and Electronics Practices and the Emerging Technologies and Energy Industry Teams. Mr. Radomsky focuses on strategic client counseling, IP due diligence and agreements, opinions and all phases of U.S. and international patent portfolio development, including patent application drafting, prosecution, appeals, reissues and reexaminations in the areas of nanotechnology, semiconductor devices and processing, materials science, solar cells and fuel cells.

Prior to joining Foley, Mr. Radomsky worked as a patent examiner in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, where he examined patent applications in semiconductor device processing and developed a broad knowledge of semiconductor device and liquid crystal display fabrication technologies. Prior to that, he was a doctoral research assistant and teaching assistant at Columbia University, where he gained expertise in semiconductor physics and testing, metallurgy and electronic materials processing.

Mr. Radomsky was recognized in the Legal 500 US 2009 Edition and in the Legal 500 US: Volume II: Intellectual Property, Media, Technology, and Telecom 2007 Guide as a top attorney for patent prosecution. He has also been named one of the Top Ten Intellectual Property Lawyers Influencing Nanotechnology by Nanotechnology Law & Business.

Dan Rardon, Ph.D.

Daniel Rardon is currently a Senior Scientist and Manager Advanced Technologies within the Office of Science & Technology at PPG Industries. In this role, he coordinates PPG’s emerging materials technology programs spanning across the corporation and defines strategic direction in areas including nanotechnology, ceramics, and composite technology. Much of his focus is external to the corporation, looking for collaborative R&D programs and partners that align with PPG’s strategic objectives. Prior to this role, Dr. Rardon spent 15 years in the coatings field in various research, development, and management assignments. His technical experience includes polymer, monomer, and crosslinker synthesis; reaction kinetics and coating stabilization and degradation; as well as waterborne coating and color development. Dr. Rardon currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Pennsylvania NanoMaterials Commercialization Center and the Advisory Board for the Nanofabrication Manufacturing Technology Partnership out of Penn State. He received his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the University of Cincinnati, his B.S. in Chemistry from Miami University, and has some 20 patents and numerous publications to his name.

Dr. David Reisner

He is an MIT-trained Ph.D.and has extensive background in energy storage and conversion, nanotechnology, and environmental technologies.  He is a cofounder and former CEO (1996-2007) of two nanotechnology companies in Connecticut, Inframat®  and US Nanocorp®.  He was instrumental in raising over $23 million in customer-based financing (Gov’t contracts) and private equity investment.  He also managed Intellectual Property portfolios and forged strategic alliances with companies in the U.S. and China.  Both companies were recognized in Y2002 - Y2005 for their fast revenue growth as Deloitte & Touche Connecticut Technology Fast50 Award recipients. Reisner and cofounders were featured in Forbes magazine in 2004 (June 21). 

David has over 175 publications and is an inventor on 10 issued patents.  He is the editor for the Bionanotechnology section of the recently published 3rd Ed. of The BioMedical Eng. Handbook and is editing a monograph on Bionanotechnology for Taylor & Francis Press.  He has written articles on the business of nanotechnology in Nanotechnology Law & Business as well as the Chinese publication Science & Culture Review.

David served a 3-year term as a Technology Pioneer for the World Economic Forum and was a panelist at the 2004 Annual Meeting in Davos and at the WEF Beijing Business Summits in 2004, 2005, and 2006 and the WEF Dalian event in 2007. 
David is active on the Board of the Connecticut Venture Group and is Chairman of the Board of the Connecticut Technology Council.  He was a NASA NanoTech Briefs Nano50 awardee in 2006.  For his efforts in the field of medical implantable nanocoatings, Reisner won the 1st annual BEACON award for Medical Technology in 2004. 

David was recognized for his historic preservation efforts in 1994 when he received the Volunteer Recognition Award from the Connecticut Historical Commission and the Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation.  David is known nationally for his expertise in Corvette restoration and documentation.  He has 3 children, his oldest attending Wesleyan Univ. and Dartmouth.

David is a 1978 University Honors graduate from Wesleyan Univ. and received his Ph.D. at MIT in 1983 in the field of chemical physics.  He is a member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering.

Dr. Scott E. Rickert, Ph.D.

Dr. Rickert is among the earliest pioneers in the field of nanotechnology.  His innovative research work began during his tenure as a Professor of Macromolecular Science at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, in the 1980s.  By 1985, Dr. Rickert recognized the immense, untapped potential of nanotechnology and founded Nanofilm, built on the foundation of his laboratory studies. 

The company’s first patented nano-scale film was commercialized that year with a major international optical company.  Today, Dr. Rickert heads a company with a substantial portfolio of commercialized and research technology, serving customers around the globe.  He leads a staff of 50, doing work in a 50,000-square-foot research, lab production and manufacturing space in Valley View, Ohio, near Cleveland.  He has helped Nanofilm develop nanotechnology-based research and commercial relationships with a number of global corporations, including Ferro and Carl Zeiss Vision, Inc., among others.

Dr. Rickert’s scientific knowledge and deep experience in nanotechnology commercialization has made him a trusted advisor to a variety of industries, government entities, global organizations and policy development groups.   

Jeffrey Rosedale, Ph.D., J.D.

Jeffrey H. Rosedale, Ph.D., J.D. is a registered patent attorney and is Co-Chair of Woodcock Washburn’s Nanotechnology and Cleantechnology Practice Groups.  His clients range from Fortune 500 corporations for materials and medical devices to entrepreneurial start-ups in the nanotech and cleantech spaces.  Major universities and federal laboratories also call on Jeff’s expertise to protect their innovations in complex technologies involving, inter alia, nanotechnology, biotechnology, electro-optical materials, display technologies, alternative energy sources and chemical process engineering.

He is an active member of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Offices’ “Nanotechnology Customer Partnership” and has been the session chair and co-organizer of nanotech specific panels for the 2005 and 2006 national meetings of the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) as well as the 2007 meeting of the Nano Science and Technology Institute (NSTI).  Jeff is a board member of the New Jersey Technology Council (NJTC), and serves as a Director of its Nanotechnology Networking Group.  He also serves the Nanotechnology Institute (NTI) in Philadelphia as a member of its Commercial Advisory Group.

Prior to patent law, Jeff was a research scientist in flat panel display technologies for Rohm and Haas Company, and was a Member of the Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill New Jersey.  He holds B.S.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees in chemical engineering from Princeton University, Stevens Institute of Technology, and the University of Minnesota, respectively, as well as a Certificate in Business Management from the University of Pennsylvania Wharton Management Program, and a J.D. from Temple Law School.  He has co-authored over 20 technical and legal publications, and is a co-inventor on four patents.

Robert D. “Skip” Rung, MSEE.

Mr. Rung is a senior high technology R&D executive with over 25 years of R&D management experience in CMOS process technology, application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) design and electronic design automation (EDA), IC packaging, MEMS, microfluidics, and inkjet printing. 

Shortly after retiring in 2001 as the director of Advanced Research and Development at Hewlett-Packard’s Corvallis, OR inkjet technology headquarters, Mr. Rung was asked to start up the Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute (ONAMI), Oregon’s first “Signature Research Center” and an unprecedented collaboration among Oregon’s research universities and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. ONAMI’s dual mission is to grow “small tech” research in Oregon and commercialize technology in order to extend the success of Oregon’s world-leading “Silicon Forest” technology cluster, which includes the most advanced R&D and manufacturing operations for leading companies such as Intel Corporation, Hewlett-Packard Company, FEI Company, Invitrogen/Life Technologies, Flir, Precision Castparts, Electro Scientific Industries, Planar Systems, Xerox Office Products, Tektronix,  ON Semiconductor and many dynamic smaller firms.  ONAMI has so far received $42M in state investment and approximately quadrupled Oregon’s annual federal and private research awards in the fields of nanolaminates and transparent/printed electronics, green nanotechnology, nanoscale metrology, and microtechnology-based energy and chemical systems (MECS).  The ONAMI gap fund has helped launch or enable 14 spinoff or startup companies since late 2006.

Steven Rutt

J. Steven Rutt is a partner with Foley & Lardner LLP. He is vice-chairman of the Nanotechnology Industry Team and a member of the Chemical & Pharmaceutical Practice. His practice includes patent counseling, IP licensing and agreements, including technology transfer carried out under the Bayh-Dole Act , patent landscaping and clearance opinions, patent prosecution, patent litigation support, trade secrets, and trademarks. His technology background is with materials and polymers including applications in nanotechnology, cleantech, nanobio and nanomedicine, printed electronics, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, and biotechnology. An area of focus for Dr. Rutt is coordinating the delivery of all aspects of IP legal services to emerging companies and representing them in their agreement negotiations.

Dr. Rutt is a frequent writer and conference presenter with respect to nanotechnology and the law, actively helping to lead and participating in Foley’s Nanotechnology Industry Team. For example, in May 2009, he moderated a panel at the Houston NSTI TechConnect conference on IP due diligence. In November 2008, he spoke at the National Nano Engineering Conference (NNEC2008, Boston) on Legal Aspects of Commercializing Technology, and in October 2008, he spoke at Regenerative Therapies (London), and in June 2008, he participated in and coordinated Foley’s participation in the NSTI Nanotechnology and Cleantech Conferences, Boston, MA. Also, in May 2008, he moderated a panel at the NanoBusiness Alliance Conference on Nanotechnology in Health Care and spoke twice at the Licensing Executive Society meeting on Quality Nanotechnology Patents and Nanotechnology Patent Licensing. Also, in February 2008, he moderated a panel of venture capitalists and an equity analyst on the subject of nanotechnology-cleantech investment at the IBF Nano Applications Forum in Palm Springs. Also, he moderated a roundtable on patent strategy including inputs from the Patent and Trademark Office’s nanotechnology administrator and European patent counsel. In October 2007, he spoke in Toronto to an Ontario technology transfer group (OnSETT) on nanotechnology IP and to an Orlando angel investor group on IP due diligence. Moreover, in June 2007, he spoke to the President’s Counsel of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) on “NNI’s Impact Measured in Patents.” Actively involved in legal training programs, he also presented a CLE seminar on “Patent Counseling Including Inventorship, Ownership, Licensing, Contracts, Due Diligence, Bayh-Dole Act, and Trade Secrets” in October 2008 and “Counseling Clients on PCT, EPO, and ex-US Patenting” in July 2008. He is the ABA co-chair for the PCT/WIPO subcommittee and meets with WIPO officials and law firms outside of the U.S. to monitor WIPO and PCT developments. He also is a member of the Licensing Executive Society (LES) and the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM).

Dr. Rutt’s legal papers have been published widely. His most recent works include “Review of A Consumer’s Guide to MEMS & Nanotechnology,” Nanotechnology Law and Business, Vol. 5, No. 1, Spring 2008, “New Patent Rules Will Dramatically Impact Nanotechnology Patenting,” Nanotechnology Law & Business, Vol. 4, No. 4, Winter 2007, a commentary on obviousness for nanotechnology patenting after KSR in the Journal of the Patent & Trademark Office Society, a detailed case review of the Federal Circuit’s 2006 decision in Zoltek v. U.S. in the Nanotechnology Law and Business Journal, Vol. 3, Issue 4 (2006) (on government liability for importation patent infringement), and an invited column in Small Times on nanotechnology patent strategy. His other recent articles have appeared in The SciTech Lawyer, “Top Developments to Watch in Nanotechnology Law,” and in Nanotechnology Law & Business Journal, 2005 (Vol. 2, Issue 2) on the patent legislation CREATE. Other recent articles include: an April 2005 article in Legal Times on Japan Bayh-Dole; and “From Plastics to Nanotechnology: Cambridge Display Technology’s IPO Registration,” which appeared in the 2004, Issue 4, of Nanotechnology Law & Business Journal. In addition, his article “Technology Transfer Under Japan’s Bayh-Dole: Boom or Bust Nanotechnology Opportunities,” appeared in the September 2004 issue of Nanotechnology Law & Business Journal, and his review of the book, “Innovation and Its Discontents,” also recently appeared in the Nanotechnology Law & Business Journal (2005, Vol. 2, Issue 1).

Dr. Rutt received his law degree from Georgetown University Law Center in 1999. His chemistry doctorate was conferred in 1990 by The Pennsylvania State University (where he was a Braddock Fellow), and he holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Goshen College. He is the author of a dozen scientific publications and inventor on four patents. His experience includes nine years of hands-on research in polymer synthesis and morphological studies, and his experience in private industry includes two years of corporate chemical research with NTT in Tokyo, Japan.

Dr. Rishi Shukla

Dr. Rishi Shukla is a technology leader at ADM. Dr. Shukla has been involved for over 14 years in the pilot scale process development of novel processes for biofuels processing. At ADM since 2000, he has extensive technical experience with the production and recovery of ethanol and other related biofuel transportation fuels. He is a member of ADM’s Water Sustainability Committee and oversees ADM’s membrane applications research. He is a graduate of University of Illinois and Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

Michael Small

Michael J. Small is a partner with Foley & Lardner LLP, where he is a member of and has led the Bankruptcy & Business Reorganizations Practice. He also practices with the firm’s Health Care Industry and Food Industry Teams.

Mr. Small focuses his practice on bankruptcy, creditors’ rights and commercial litigation. He has represented financial institutions, creditors’ committees, trustees, secured and unsecured creditors and debtors in reorganization cases, liquidations, workouts, transactions, and a variety of federal and state court litigation.

Mr. Small is a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School (J.D., 1991), received a master’s degree from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (M.A., 1988), and earned his bachelor’s degree from Brown University (B.A., magna cum laude, 1985).

Mr. Small is admitted to practice in Illinois and before the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh and Ninth Circuits and the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, where he is a member of the Trial Bar. He has also appeared in federal and state courts in Delaware, Wisconsin, California, Georgia, Alabama, Indiana, Missouri, Michigan, New York and Tennessee.

Mr. Small has lectured and participated in panels at conferences throughout the United States and in Europe. His publications include:

  * Co-authored “Financing Renewable Energy,” Commercial Lending Review, Volume 23, Number 2 (March – April 2008) 
  * “Healthcare and Insolvency: The Lender’s Perspective,” Commercial Lending Review (Winter 1999–2000)
  * Co-authored “Key Issues in Chapter 11 Retailer Inventory Sales: The Lender’s Perspective,” Commercial Lending Review (Winter 1997–98)

Mr. Small was selected for inclusion in the 2007, 2008 and 2009 Illinois Super Lawyers® lists for his bankruptcy and creditor/debtor rights work.*

*The Illinois Supreme Court does not recognize certifications of specialties in the practice of law and no award or recognition is a requirement to practice law in Illinois.

Dr. Doug Smith

Douglas Smith has been President of NanoPore since 1994. Previously, he served as Director of the CENTER FOR MICRO-ENGINEERED CERAMICS and Regents Professor of Chemical Engineering at UNM.  Dr. Smith and NanoPore work on the use of nanoporous materials for thermal and electrical insulation and adsorption cooling.  He has 97 patents and is the lead inventor for both the NanoglassTM family of low dielectric constant films for use in semiconductors and the NanoCoolTM family of on-demand cooling.  His work has led to 3 commercial product lines; the NanoglassTM family of dielectrics, NanoThermTM vacuum thermal insulation, and NanoCoolTM adsorption cooling.  He has created three different nanotechnology-related joint ventures including Nanoglass LLC (with Honeywell), NanoCool LLC (with MeadWestvaco), and NanoPore Insulation LLC (with Sealed Air). 

Jodi Flax Soriano

Jodi Flax Soriano, Director of Business Development, joined Ohmx from MIICRO, a start-up neuroimaging company focused on central nervous system therapeutics, where she was Director of Business Development. Previously she was a founding member of Motorola Life Sciences, a nanotechnology-based strategic business unit within Motorola focusing on DNA, RNA and protein biosensors. While at Motorola, she helped launch a biosensor platform and managed and implemented market research projects, the results of which aided in a $9M ATP/NIST government grant and a multi-million dollar acquisition.

Chris Spain

Chris Spain is chairman and chief strategy officer of HydroPoint. Mr. Spain co-founded HydroPoint in 2002 with the vision of providing smart water management for sustained conservation and cost savings. Today HydroPoint is regarded as a proven leader in clean technology, with top-tier venture and strategic partnerships.

Mr. Spain has over 20 years of experience successfully managing cutting-edge technology, media and information services companies. Previously, he headed Shaman Corporation, which he co-founded in 1996. Shaman Corporation provided mission-critical IT data services to such leading companies as Hambrecht & Quest, DLJ, Lockheed, Department of Education and Intuit.

In early 2000, Mr. Spain successfully sold Shaman to Corporate Software and Technology, one of the country’s largest corporate software resellers. Prior to Shaman Corporation, Mr. Spain was president of Accelerated Media, a broadcast and interactive media company that produced the Discovery Channel’s science- and technology-based “Know Zone” program, for which Mr. Spain received an Emmy award. Accelerated Media created one of the first interactive TV/website systems, later adapted by the Discovery Channel for other programs. In addition, Mr. Spain led multimedia projects for NBC, Apple, Pacific Bell and Francis Ford Coppola’s Zoetrope Studios, among other clients. Prior to Accelerated Media, Mr. Spain won numerous awards for direction and design as a Special Projects Producer for Chronicle Broadcasting in San Francisco. His work on live, national television shows blended complex technology integration with large-scale project coordination, honing an ability that serves him well at HydroPoint, where he leads the Company in delivering enterprise-wide water management solutions for a wide variety of industries.

Paul Stimers

Paul Stimers focuses his lobbying efforts on matters related to nanotechnology, information technology policy, and defense, and advises a wide range of companies and industry associations in pursuing legislation and representing their interests before Congress and Federal agencies.

Paul represents the NanoBusiness Alliance, the nanotechnology industry association, in developing and advocating for policies that will expand the nation’s nanotechnology infrastructure. He coordinates the Alliance’s annual Policy Tour, which brings dozens of nanotechnology leaders to the capital for meetings with senior government officials. He also works with several of the world’s leading nanotechnology companies to secure federal funding for research and development projects.

In the field of information technology policy, Paul works with software companies and industry associations to ensure data and network security without restricting technological development. He also advises the Alliance for Digital Progress – a coalition of technology companies, consumer groups, and public–interest organizations – in its efforts to prevent technology mandates.

Paul has significant knowledge of and experience in defense and homeland security issues. He represents a number of companies working with the Department of Defense in the areas of RDT&E and procurement.

Working with Water Advocates, a non–profit organization raising awareness of the need for safe drinking water and sanitation worldwide, Paul helped to pass the Water for the Poor Act of 2005, which for the first time commits the United States to making water development a major foreign policy goal.

Paul was senior editor of the Journal of Law and Public Policy at Harvard Law School. While attending Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Paul was a charter member of the Harvard Association for Law and Policy and a member of the Council for Emerging National Security Affairs. At the Kennedy School, Paul specialized in national security, focusing on terrorism, weapons of mass destruction and defense planning. Before coming to K&L Gates, Paul worked as an intern with Representative George Nethercutt (R–WA) and for the Department of the Navy.

Nancy Sullivan, MBA

Ms. Sullivan serves as the Director of the Office of Technology Management (OTM) at the University of Illinois at Chicago.  As Director, she leads a team of twelve professionals responsible for the identification, protection, marketing and licensing of intellectual property arising from the more than $250 million in research conducted on the campus. Ms. Sullivan also works with a wide range of campus, corporate and community partners, furthering the office’s mission to encourage innovation, enhance research and facilitate economic development.
Prior to joining the OTM, Ms. Sullivan was Senior Director of Business Development for KeraCure, an early-stage biotechnology company currently in clinical trials of a cell-based device for treatment of chronic wounds. Previously, Sullivan was director of the Entrepreneurial Life Sciences Initiative at Northwestern University.

Ms. Sullivan earned her MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and a Master’s in Biotechnology, also from Northwestern. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Loyola University.

Mark C. Terrell

Mark has experience in leading and advising a number of technology based organizations. Most recently he has been COO of Sionex Corporation, a VC backed company producing chemical and biological sensors using a MEMS based technology. Mark was also a co-founder and VP of Radiometers of Inframetrics, Inc, a company producing spectral radiometer instruments and night vision systems; currently part of FLIR Systems. Mark has designed and sold products in the electro-optical and thermal sensors market and successfully managed sensor companies for over 25 years. Mark has an electrical engineering degree and certificate in advanced engineering study from Cornell.

Keith Thomas

Keith Thomas is a proven entrepreneur and was most recently CEO of Vector Innovations, which was backed by a number of well regarded venture firms and successfully exited.  He has led a number of technology start-ups, restructured companies at New York-based Tandon Capital, managed strategy and operations projects at Booz Allen & Hamilton and completed corporate finance transactions at Citibank in the US and Europe.  Mr. Thomas holds an M.B.A. from Columbia University, an M.A. in Economics and a B.A.Sc. in Engineering from the University of Toronto.

Ioannis Tomazos

Dr. Tomazos is the CEO of Biorasis Inc. a company that is developing Implantable Continuous Glucose Monitoring devices. Dr. Tomazos graduated from the University of Connecticut (UCONN) with both a Ph.D. degree in cellular biology and an MBA degree in marketing. As a Ph.D. student he worked with the interferon system, the avian flu virus, the avian reovirus and retrovirus. While a Ph.D. student he interfaced with the Glucose Sensor project at UCONN following its developmental steps and he entered the UCONN School of Business as a full time MBA student. At the School of Business he worked as an intern for Well Point, and he consulted with three Connecticut businesses in developing their business strategies/plans. In 2008 he became the CEO of Biorasis Inc. In Biorasis he has: (i) developed its business model and commercialization strategy, (ii) obtained a competitive State grant by the Small Business Innovation Program Award, (iii) filled a number of patent applications, and (iv) established acollaborative relationship with the Yale Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Society to mentor Ph.D. students on biosensor-related business developmental projects. Furthermore, he has received on behalf of Biorasis the 2008 Connecticut Technology Council Innovation Pipeline Tech Companies to Watch Award. Under Dr. Tomazos Biorasis was ranked within the top three Small Businesses (from over 120 companies) at the National SBIR Conference (in Hartford, CT Nov. 11-14, 2008). In addition, Biorasis was ranked within the top 5 start-up business to Watch in New England, as stated by the Mass High Tech Journal of New England Technology last March. Recently, Dr. Tomazos obtained the 2009 Cantor Colburn Innovation Pipeline Award.

Mitsi Ushio Ph.D.

Ms. Ushio has served as a Vice President and Associate since May 2007. From June 2006 to May 2007, she was a Technology Licensing Officer at Columbia University, where she managed the nanotechnology and materials science invention and patent portfolios. From May 1996 to May 2006, she was employed by Merck & Co., Inc., most recently as a Senior Biochemical Engineer with the Bioprocess R&D group. She is a graduate of University College London (Ph.D., Biochemical Engineering), Lehigh University (M.S., Chemical Engineering) and Johns Hopkins University (B.S., Chemical Engineering).

Portfolio responsibilities: Ancora Pharmaceuticals, Biovex, Ensemble Discovery, Mersana Therapeutics and Questech.

Todd Vare

Todd G. Vare is a partner in the Intellectual Property Department of Barnes & Thornburg LLP, where he concentrates his practice in the litigation of patent disputes and counseling on the protection of intellectual property assets, and co-chair of the firm’s Business and Technology (BTech) Group. Mr. Vare has litigated patent disputes covering a wide variety of technologies, including gene sequencing, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, telecommunications, software programs and processes, cellular antenna systems, and mechanical devices. Mr. Vare also has litigated a variety of other intellectual property and business disputes in state and federal courts involving trade secrets, copyright, software performance, software licenses, employee non-compete and non-disclosure agreements, and rights of publicity. He is a frequent speakeron trial and litigation techniques, multi-media trial presentation strategies, and electronic discovery. In addition to trial work, Mr. Vare has significant federal and state appellate court experience. He has represented clients in appeals before the 7th Circuit, the Federal Circuit, and the 11th Circuit. He won a reversal of a summary judgment of noninfringement for his client in Dorel Juvenile Group, Inc. v. Graco Children’s Products, Inc. Mr. Vare also has argued before the United States Supreme Court in U.S. v. Santos, which resulted in a victory for his client involving the scope of the federal money laundering statute. Mr. Vare is co-chairman of the firm’s Nanotechnology Practice Group and a member of the firm’s Life Sciences and Business and Technology Group (BTech) practice groups. In these roles, Mr. Vare counsels clients on a variety of matters along the pathway of “concept to commercialization” in the life sciences and technology industries, as well as the application of nanotechnology to these and other industry sectors. His client counseling includes IP protection, computer and software protection, e-commerce processes, electronic signatures, Internet security, and other business technology matters. Mr. Vare is admitted to practice in Indiana and Illinois, the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the 7th Circuit, the 11th Circuit, and the U.S. District Courts for the Northern District of Illinois, Southern District of Indiana, and Northern District of Indiana. Mr. Vare devotes a considerable portion of his time to pro bono matters and regularly accepts appointments under the Criminal Justice Act from the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. Mr. Vare received his J.D. summa cum laude from Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis in 1994. He graduated from Miami University in 1987 with a B.A. in international studies in 1987. He also received an M.B.A. from the Indiana University School of Business in 1989, and worked in marketing communications before attending law school.

David Wallace

David Wallace is a litigation partner at the New York-based international law firm of Chadbourne & Parke, where he founded and leads the firm’s multidisciplinary nanotechnologies practice. He frequently writes and speaks on a range of nanotechnology-related topics and also serves on the Advisory Board of Nanotechnology Law & Business as well as the Advisory Board of The Nanoethics Group at California Polytechnic State University.  An accomplished courtroom lawyer, Mr. Wallace’s practice is focused on all phases of complex, health-related products liability and related counseling. For two decades, he has counseled, coordinated and personally litigated the defense of multinational corporations in civil- and common-law jurisdictions globally.

Congressman James T. Walsh

Jim Walsh is a government affairs counselor in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. He served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1989 to 2009. During his time in Congress, Mr. Walsh served in various positions and committees, including deputy Republican whip from 1994-2006, member of the House Appropriations Committee from 1993-2009 where he served as chairman of four House Appropriations Subcommittees: District of Columbia; Legislative Branch; VA, HUD and Independent Agencies (NASA, EPA, FEMA, NSF, Selective Services); and Military Quality of Life and Veterans Affairs; served as ranking Republican member of the Labor, Health and Human Services sub-committee on Appropriations; and member of the House Agricultural Committee from 1989-1993.
Mr. Walsh served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Nepal from 1970-1972 and with the New York Telephone Company/NYNEX, Syracuse, New York until 1986.  Prior to his election, Mr. Walsh served as director, adjunct professor/executive in residence at SUNY Institute of Technology, Telecommunications Institute, Marcy, New York from 1986-1988.

Paul Wickberg

With over 20 years of business leadership and senior management experience, Paul Wickberg brings to EnviroTower a proven track record of driving rapid growth and value creation for technology start-ups as well as Fortune 200 organizations. Most recently, as President and COO of Verisae, Inc., a provider of energy and asset management software, Paul grew the company from startup to multi-national status in just 4 years.Prior to Verisae, Paul was President, Emerson Climate Technologies Solutions, where he oversaw multiple divisions. This was position he assumed after Emerson’s acquisition of Computer Process Controls wherehe was the President and one of the original founders. He is credited with creating and building Emerson Retail Services, now the leading provider of energy services to the supermarket industry, growing revenues from $19M to $80M over a 5-year period and is the recipient of Emerson’s Technology Achievement award.

Christopher Wight

Christopher Wight has practiced intellectual property law for 22 years, specializing in biopharmaceutical, pharmaceutical, genetic diagnostic and chemical patents, and complex commercial transactions involving technology transfer. He has a broad range of legal experience in the biopharmaceutical and chemical field, and is active in preparing and prosecuting U.S. and foreign patent applications, including specialized patent prosecution matters involving administrative appeals and patent interferences before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) patent practice, and patent opposition practice before the European Patent Office. Mr. Wight also conducts due diligence analyses of intellectual property assets, provides patentability, commercial clearance, and non-infringement/invalidity opinions, and counsels clients in designing around third party patents. He also assists clients negotiate and draft agreements relating to complex commercial transactions involving the protection and transfer of intellectual property assets, including agreements relating to protection of proprietary information, technology licenses, joint and sponsored research programs, strategic alliances and clinical trials.

Mr. Wight’s technical experience is wide-ranging. He has handled patent matters in the fields of molecular biology, immunology, genetics, biologic therapeutics (proteins and antibodies), small-molecule therapeutics, gene therapy, molecular diagnostics, protein chemistry (protein purification and analysis, yeast two-hybrid and reverse yeast two-hybrid technologies), high-throughput screening assays, mammalian/eukaryotic cell culture and expression, microfluidics, DNA microarray analysis, environmental biotechnology (microbial water treatment & purification), bioinformatics, chemical/ pharmaceutical compositions and formulations, plastic films, bioabsorbable chemical compositions, vascular access devices, and metallurgical compositions (polycrystalline diamond, cubic boron nitride).

Peter Williams

Dr Peter Williams is the Chief Technology Officer for IBM’s Big Green Innovations incubator, whose role is to create environmentally focused businesses for IBM - he is personally responsible for assembling, maintaining and developing the portfolio of businesses included.  His particular focus areas have been PV technologies; developing green house gas reduction solutions and services for all types of organization, both public and private; and, in greatest depth, water management solutions, covering entire water resources (for example entire rivers or aquifers), utility infrastructures responsible for water supply, water quality and waste water management, and enterprise water management. 

Dr Williams holds the title of IBM Distinguished Engineer.  By background, he is a management consultant with well over 20 years experience of bringing technology and business issues together to develop novel solutions and business models.  A native of the UK, he has lived in California since 1999, and is married with three children.  His PhD was awarded by the School of Management at the University of Bath, England, in 1986.

Zvi Yaniv

Dr. Zvi Yaniv is the President and Chief Operating Officer of Applied Nanotech Holdings, Inc. Inc. (ANHI, http://www.appliednanotech.net) and the President and Chief Executive Officer of Applied Nanotech, Inc. in Austin, TX, guiding the company to become a pioneer in nanotechnology in a variety of fields such as electron field emission from carbon films/carbon nanotubes, epoxy/nanoparticles composites for improved sporting goods, hydrogen sensors for power transformers, bio-nanosensors based on enzyme coated carbon nanotubes, inkjettable copper and other metallic inks, etc.

Dr. Yaniv is an authority in electro-optics, liquid crystal technology, amorphous semiconductors, technology commercialization and business management. He has published over 200 articles, holds more than 150 patents, and has extensive contacts in the U.S., Europe, Israel and the Far East.

Dr. Zvi Yaniv was a founder of Kent Display Systems in Kent, Ohio, the “no-power” reflective LCD Company and of OIS Optical Imaging Systems, Inc. in Novi, Michigan.  As President and CEO of OIS, Inc., he led the company during its years of development and initial commercialization of advanced active matrix liquid crystal displays and amorphous silicon image sensors.  While at OIS, Dr. Yaniv was one of the founders of Unipac (now AU Optronics), currently one of the premier display companies in Taiwan.
Earlier, Dr. Yaniv held ranking positions with the Practical Engineering College, Beer-Sheva; National Institute for Technical Training, Tel-Aviv; and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

In 1999, Dr. Yaniv introduced a new expression of kinetic art (Digital Windows, http://www.digitalwindows.net), allowing static two- or three- dimensional artworks to become dynamic and interactive.

Dr. Yaniv holds a B.Sc. in physics/mathematics and a M.Sc. in electro-optics with distinction from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and earned a M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in physics at Kent State University. He has received awards from both universities and the Scientific Research Society. Dr. Yaniv is a member of the Board of Directors of ANHI, the Nanoparticles Applications Center of Texas State University and the Society for Information Display (SID). In May 1989, Dr. Yaniv was elected Fellow of the Society for Information Display for “his innovation and leadership in the development of large area high performance active matrix LCDs and scanners.” As a member of the SID, Dr. Yaniv founded two chapters of the Americas Region: the Metropolitan Detroit and the Texas Chapters and served as director of these chapters for more than ten years.

In March 2000, Dr. Yaniv was nominated and he accepted the honorific title of Senior Research Fellow of the IC2 Institute of the University of Texas. In January 2001 Dr. Yaniv founded the Nanomaterials Applications Center, now affiliated with Texas State University where Dr. Yaniv has been appointed Nanotechnology Professor in the Physics Department.
In December 2003 Dr. Yaniv was nominated and accepted to become a strategic advisor to Governor Nobuyoshi Sumita of Shimane Prefecture in Japan in the field of job creation utilizing the advances in nanotechnology.

Dr. Bing Zhou

Dr. Bing Zhou, a leading scientist in nanocatalyst field, has more than 15 years experience in design and synthesis of catalysts at nanometer scale. His contribution to nanotechnology is well recognized internationally. The American Chemical Society (ACS) elected him the Catalysis Secretariat Chair. In addition, ACS appointed him three times to organize and chair symposia on Nanotechnology in Catalysis, which were attended by well-known scholars from academic and researchers from industry around the world. An authority in nanotechnology and nanomaterials, as an editor and author Dr. Zhou initiated a book series entitled “Nanotechnology in Catalysis” and has served as a “member of judge” for several peer reviewed world-class publications in nanoscience and nanomaterials.

The platform technology NxCat™ developed by Dr. Zhou has a potential to change the catalysis industry. At a time when catalysis development was believed to be a black art accomplished only by trial and error, he initiated and perfected a technology that has for the first time made the design and engineering of catalyst at nanoscale possible. The nanocatalysts synthesized by this technology outperform many existing commercial catalysts that have been improved and perfected over many years. It is a technology that catalysis industry has desired for last thirty years. The high efficiency and selectivity catalysts developed by NxCat™ technology save significant capital and operation costs, eliminate the production of by-products usually being treated as waste; and make the chemical and petrochemical industrial processes clean (Green Chemistry).

Based on such contributions, Dr. Zhou received numerous awards including the Innovative Research Award from the National Science Foundation and from the Department of Energy. In 2003, Dr. Zhou was selected by the Chinese Academy of Science to receive the “Outstanding Overseas Scholar Award”, which included a significant grant to establish a nanocatalysis laboratory at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, China’s national laboratory renowned in catalysis. Most recently, Dr. Zhou received the highest award given in the United States, The Presidential Green Chemistry Award. He is active in various professional associations and societies, including serving as Chair and Program Chair of the ACS Catalysis and Surface Science Secretariat, board member of the ACS Middle Atlantic Region, and board member of the Catalysis Society of Metropolitan New York.